Miho Nakazawa

Miho Nakazawa graduated from the Organ Course at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music. She completed her Master’s degree in Organ at the Tokyo University of the Arts, receiving the Taito City Mayor’s Award upon graduation. In her master’s program, she conducted research on organ performance practices on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) from the 16th to 17th centuries.
Her research was published in Japan Organist, Vol. 51, the annual journal of the Japan Association of Organists.
 
She was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1st “Church Music in Nagasaki” Organ Audition, and is a 19th-term graduate of the Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall Organist Internship Program.

She has performed at major concert halls in Japan, including Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, and Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, as well as in churches and temples such as Reinanzaka Church and Tsukiji Hongwanji.

She studied organ with Yumiko Ogino, Makiko Hayashima, Megumi Tokuoka, Takeshi Kondo and Andrés Cea Galán, and harpsichord with Ryunosuke Okada. She has also participated in masterclasses with Lorenzo Ghielmi, Bine Katrine Bryndorf, Erwan Le Prado, Michel Bouvard, Monica Melcova, Jorge García Martín and Juan María Pedrero.

Her past positions include Organist at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and Organist at Obirin Junior and Senior High School. She has also served as church organist at Catholic Himonya Church and Kinuta Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan.
She is a member of the Japan Association of Organists.
Currently, she is based between Lisbon, Portugal, and Japan.