Born in Osaka, Japan, and raised in New Jersey, pianist Sayuri Miyamoto holds degrees from Yale University, the Juilliard School, and Manhattan School of Music, where she received her doctorate. Her teachers have included Leonard Eisner, Donald Currier, Nadia Reisenberg, and Seymour Lipkin. She has concertized in solo and chamber recitals and as soloist with orchestras across the U.S. Since moving to the Boston area in 1988, she has maintained a private teaching studio, served on the coaching staff of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and been in much demand as an accompanist. Among the many artists with whom she has collaborated are the late Marylou Speaker Churchill, former principal second violinist of the Boston Symphony; violinist Stefan Jackiw, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner; and cellist Zlatomir Fung, gold medal winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Sayuri has made numerous chamber music appearances throughout the region: Sevenars Music Festival, West Stockbridge Chamber Players, Newton and Weston library series, Music Mondays, and these annual Pan-Mass Challenge/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute benefit concerts which she has been organizing with her husband, oboist/conductor Joel Bard, since 2006. Most recently she appeared as soloist with the North Shore Philharmonic in April.