Migiwa Miyajima

Migiwa teaches a wide range of ages — from elementary-school students to retired adults, professionals and passionate hobbiests. Beyond music, she also offers life coaching.

Music 

• Jazz & pop piano,
• composition, music theory
• Voice
• Stage-presence and musicianship coaching 
• Career consultation

Beyond music 

• Life coaching

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SPEAKING & TEACHING CREDITS

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

COMPOSITIONS 

• 2025 — Hikari City, Yamaguchi, Japan
• Jazz Composers Present — Online, USA

JAZZ, BIG BAND & BEYOND

• Sapporo City Jazz, Japan
• Kawasaki Jazz, Japan

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

• Ibaraki Prefectural Mito Daisan High School, Japan —November 2023
  Lecture for approximately 600 high-school students, plus a “Jazz 101” masterclass
• Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan — June 2021, November 2021, and June 2022
• Nagasaki University, Japan 
  “Introduction to Careers,” a required course for students in all faculties, 2021–2022
• Moriya Junior High School, Moriya City, Ibaraki —  February 2021
  Online social-studies field trip: “What Is a Musician’s Job Really Like?”
• Official Residence of the Consul General of Japan in New York — August 2019 
  Program for students ages 13–17, presented with the cooperation of the Kyodo News New York Bureau and Shinano Mainichi Shimbun

A VIEW FROM NEW YORK

• How Does New York Embrace Diversity?
• Why Are Jazz Bands So Resilient to Change?

TEACHING

BAND AND ENSEMBLE COACHING / GUEST CONDUCTING

There are three ways to work together:

• A one-time workshop or clinic
• Ongoing coaching over multiple sessions
• Guest conducting at a concert  (For a guest-conducting engagement, Migiwa leads a workshop lasting several hours and then joins the ensemble in concert as pianist or conductor.)

JAPANESE STUDENT JAZZ BANDS MIGIWA HAS COACHED:
Sophia University, Waseda University, Keio University KMP, International Christian University, University of Tsukuba, Tohoku University, Doshisha University, Saga University, Kagoshima University, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido University of Science, Hokkai-Gakuen University

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS：

• May 2026 — Vermont All State Music Festival
  Swanton, Vermont, USA
  Guest conductor of the state’s representative high-school jazz ensemble
• May 2024 — Generations in Jazz Festival
  Mount Gambier, Australia
  Guest artist, adjudicator, and guest conductor at a festival attended by 6,000 young musicians
• May 2024 — Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
  Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
• April–May 2024 — Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
  University of Melbourne, Australia
• April 2024 — University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida, USA
• July 2023 — New York University Steinhardt
  Jazz Studies Program
• January 2023 — Mt. Hood Community College
  Portland, Oregon, USA
• 2009–2016 — Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Workshops
  USA and Japan
  More than 1,400 participants, ages 16–60

TEACHING COMPOSITION

• November 2024 — Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo / Minato City Board of Education
  Program for children ages 6–12, designed to include children who require additional support
• July 2023 — New York University Steinhardt
• June 2022 — International Alliance for Women in Music Symposium
  Oregon, USA
• May 2022 — International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers Symposium
  Texas, USA

CHOIR AND ENSEMBLE COACHING

• May 2025 — Hikari City, Yamaguchi
  Co-created and performed two pieces with a 50-member community choir whose members ranged in age from 13 to their 70s
• October–November 2024 — Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki
  Five single-day events for approximately 1,500 participants ages 6–15

RECORDING PRODUCTION & ARRANGING

• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
• Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows
• Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra

All of the above projects resulted in Grammy-nominated albums.

PUBLIC CREATION & PREMIERES DURING ARTIST RESIDENCIES

• June 2024 — Camargo Foundation / Jerome Foundation
  Cassis, France
  Lecture and concert
• September 2024 — Anderson Center
  Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
  Lecture
• April 2022 — Culture Lab LIC
  Queens, New York City, USA

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