Member
Bloomington, Indiana
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Bagpipes, Cornetto, Recorder, Renaissance Winds
Early Music Affiliations
Educator, Performer
Biography
Miyo Aoki is a recorder player currently living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is active as a performer and teacher, and is the author of Recorder from the Ground Up, a unique curriculum recently published by Seattle Historical Arts for Kids. Miyo is a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet and has performed in the US, Germany, and Poland, with groups including The Eurasia Consort, Utopia Early Music, Forgotten Clefs, and Gamut Bach Ensemble; and at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival and Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has premiered works by contemporary composers Natalie Williams and Agnes Dorwarth and has played with the Boise Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Eugene Symphony, respectively, in performances of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In addition to maintaining a private teaching studio, Miyo teaches recorder at an elementary school and at workshops around the United States. Miyo holds a KAZ Diplom (Artist Diploma) from the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany, where she studied with Professor Han Tol, and degrees in both early music performance and mathematics from Indiana University, where she studied with Professor Eva Legêne.
