TOMOKO MIZUNO HARADA
The goal of the Harada Piano Studio is to provide students with a high quality piano lessons and achieve a high level of piano performance. Students will be given every opportunity to perform, and they will be encouraged to participate as appropriate in competitions, auditions, and student evaluation programs.
Ms. Harada also prepares students for college entrance auditions and music examinations. Teaching serious students from beginners to advanced as well as adult students.
Piano Lessons will take place at the studio in Warren, New Jersey. For the detail studio policy, please contact directly.
BIOGRAPHY
Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano from the Music Teachers National Association. As a distinguished teacher in New Jersey, her students have received numerous awards and become winners of state, national and international competitions including the International Young Artists Piano Competition, the Music Teachers National Association, NJMTA Young Musicians Competition, Greater Princeton Steinway Society Scholarship Competition, the Goldblatt Piano Scholarship Competition, Bookstaber Scholarship Competition, AMTL Young Artists Competition, the Cecilian Music Club Young Artists Competition, National Young Virtuosi Recital Competition, Grand and Gold winners of the National Young Musicians Showcase Competition, 1st prize winners of the Rondo Vanguard International Competition among others. As an adjudicator and clinician, she is invited to judge piano competitions for young artists as well as give lecture-recitals and master classes throughout USA and Japan.
Ms. Harada has received such awards as the National Pedagogy Award, Genia Robinor Pedagogy Award of Excellence and The Allison R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching all from the Piano Teachers Society of America, and the Laura Conover Pedagogy Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Cecilian Music Club. Other distinguished teacher awards include the Young Pianist Competition of NJ, International Concert Alliance, Piano Teachers Congress of NY, American Concert Alliance, Crescendo International Competition, and American Fine Arts Festival. As winners of international and national competitions, her students have performed at prestigious venues including Weill Recital Hall-Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, DiMenna Center in NYC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Washington, DC among others. Her students have graduated to pursue music in leading Universities and Conservatories and have excelled at various competitions.
Ms. Harada was also invited to join a panel of discussions at the NJMTA State Conference on pedagogy as well as served as a master class clinician in Princeton, NJ and in Westport, CT. She was also a speaker at South Jersey Music Teachers Association.
She has been invited to serve as an adjudicator and a jury member at competitions and auditions of numerous music organizations in the Tri-State area including Connecticut State Music Teachers Association, NJ Music Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association (State of NJ), Music Educators Association of NJ, and Piano Teachers Society of America in addition to other music competitions including Young Artists Concerto Competitions for Livingston Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, and Manalapan Battleground Symphony Orchestra; Scholarship Competitions for MacDowell Club of Morris County, Golden Key Music Festival Competition of American Concert Alliance, Cecilian Music Club Young Artists Showcase Competition, Young Peoples Music Competition sponsored by Chinese American Cultural Association among others.
In addition to maintaining a private studio in Warren, NJ, she is also an adjunct professor of music at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ since 2003. She has also taught at Rutgers University's pre-college Division.
In 2007, she and a group of musicians founded the National League of Performing Arts, Inc., (www.nationalleagueofperformingarts.org), a nonprofit music educational organization, for the purpose of providing music educational and performance opportunities to aspiring students and young artists. She has been serving as Executive Director of the Organization since its inception.
In addition, Ms. Harada is a Board Member of NJ Music Teachers Association serving as Judging Coordinator. She was also a former Board Member of the Music Educators Association of NJ, the Piano Teachers Society of America, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piano Teachers Congress of New York.
She received degrees from the Mannes School of Music in New York City under the tutelage of Nina Svetlanova as a scholarship recipient. Ms. Harada further studied in Paris, France, and received the highest rank of Le Diplome Superieur D’Execution Concertiste at L’Ecole Normale de Music de Cortot de Paris under the tutelage of France Clidat. She also studied with Adolph Baller from Stanford University. As a student at the Fontainbleau School of Arts, France and International Academy of Nice, France, she studied with Gaby Casadesus, and Jean-Marie Darre. Master Classes with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Jeffrey Kahane, Joseph Kalichstein, and Jerome Lowenthal. Ms. Harada was awarded the First Prize of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Competition and Peninsula Music Competition, performing as a soloist with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the late Maestro Takashi Asahina and with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Her performances were broadcast on radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City.
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Ms. Harada also prepares students for college entrance auditions and music examinations. Teaching serious students from beginners to advanced as well as adult students.
Piano Lessons will take place at the studio in Warren, New Jersey. For the detail studio policy, please contact directly.
BIOGRAPHY
Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano from the Music Teachers National Association. As a distinguished teacher in New Jersey, her students have received numerous awards and become winners of state, national and international competitions including the International Young Artists Piano Competition, the Music Teachers National Association, NJMTA Young Musicians Competition, Greater Princeton Steinway Society Scholarship Competition, the Goldblatt Piano Scholarship Competition, Bookstaber Scholarship Competition, AMTL Young Artists Competition, the Cecilian Music Club Young Artists Competition, National Young Virtuosi Recital Competition, Grand and Gold winners of the National Young Musicians Showcase Competition, 1st prize winners of the Rondo Vanguard International Competition among others. As an adjudicator and clinician, she is invited to judge piano competitions for young artists as well as give lecture-recitals and master classes throughout USA and Japan.
Ms. Harada has received such awards as the National Pedagogy Award, Genia Robinor Pedagogy Award of Excellence and The Allison R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching all from the Piano Teachers Society of America, and the Laura Conover Pedagogy Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Cecilian Music Club. Other distinguished teacher awards include the Young Pianist Competition of NJ, International Concert Alliance, Piano Teachers Congress of NY, American Concert Alliance, Crescendo International Competition, and American Fine Arts Festival. As winners of international and national competitions, her students have performed at prestigious venues including Weill Recital Hall-Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, DiMenna Center in NYC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Washington, DC among others. Her students have graduated to pursue music in leading Universities and Conservatories and have excelled at various competitions.
Ms. Harada was also invited to join a panel of discussions at the NJMTA State Conference on pedagogy as well as served as a master class clinician in Princeton, NJ and in Westport, CT. She was also a speaker at South Jersey Music Teachers Association.
She has been invited to serve as an adjudicator and a jury member at competitions and auditions of numerous music organizations in the Tri-State area including Connecticut State Music Teachers Association, NJ Music Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association (State of NJ), Music Educators Association of NJ, and Piano Teachers Society of America in addition to other music competitions including Young Artists Concerto Competitions for Livingston Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, and Manalapan Battleground Symphony Orchestra; Scholarship Competitions for MacDowell Club of Morris County, Golden Key Music Festival Competition of American Concert Alliance, Cecilian Music Club Young Artists Showcase Competition, Young Peoples Music Competition sponsored by Chinese American Cultural Association among others.
In addition to maintaining a private studio in Warren, NJ, she is also an adjunct professor of music at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ since 2003. She has also taught at Rutgers University's pre-college Division.
In 2007, she and a group of musicians founded the National League of Performing Arts, Inc., (www.nationalleagueofperformingarts.org), a nonprofit music educational organization, for the purpose of providing music educational and performance opportunities to aspiring students and young artists. She has been serving as Executive Director of the Organization since its inception.
In addition, Ms. Harada is a Board Member of NJ Music Teachers Association serving as Judging Coordinator. She was also a former Board Member of the Music Educators Association of NJ, the Piano Teachers Society of America, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piano Teachers Congress of New York.
She received degrees from the Mannes School of Music in New York City under the tutelage of Nina Svetlanova as a scholarship recipient. Ms. Harada further studied in Paris, France, and received the highest rank of Le Diplome Superieur D’Execution Concertiste at L’Ecole Normale de Music de Cortot de Paris under the tutelage of France Clidat. She also studied with Adolph Baller from Stanford University. As a student at the Fontainbleau School of Arts, France and International Academy of Nice, France, she studied with Gaby Casadesus, and Jean-Marie Darre. Master Classes with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Jeffrey Kahane, Joseph Kalichstein, and Jerome Lowenthal. Ms. Harada was awarded the First Prize of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Competition and Peninsula Music Competition, performing as a soloist with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the late Maestro Takashi Asahina and with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Her performances were broadcast on radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City.
Media coming soon.