As a First Prize laureate of the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition at age eleven, Nana Miyoshi impressed both adjudicators and the audience at her Carnegie Hall debut with an astonishing ability that has already garnered her international acclaim. Born in Tokyo, she began her piano studies at age three, and has continued her studies with Cosmo Buono for the past five years.

In order to study by Zoom with Mr. Buono, and to accommodate a 14-hour time difference, she has to be warmed up and at the piano very early in the morning in her native Tokyo to take lessons taught from New York. However, the lessons are not just about piano literature, but discussions of Western art, opera, and ballet, all with a view toward her becoming a well-rounded artist.

With concepts like career strategy and the need to establish professional credentials firmly in her grasp, she has already won a number of other competitions, among them first prize in the Yokohama International Piano Competition; the Imola International Piano Audition in Japan; and Austria’s Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition.

In 2020, she performed the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A-major, K. 488 in Turkey with the Mersin State Opera and Ballet Orchestra under the baton of Nezih Seçkin, conductor and music director of Ankara State Opera and Ballet, and returned 2023 by special invitation from Naci Özgüç, Chief Conductor of the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Orchestra, to perform the Grieg Concerto in A-minor.

She also made her New York recital debut in 2022 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and another solo recital debut at The Church, the arts center in Sag Harbor, New York. She has also returned most recently to Carnegie Hall as a Special Guest Artist for the Sixteenth Annual ABC Gala.

Future plans include a Carnegie Hall solo recital scheduled for Spring of 2026.