On June 6 2025, Nana Miyoshi was the featured artist for a concert presented by New York’s Columbus Citizens Foundation in collaboration with the Alexander & Buono Foundation. Entitled “The Power of Inspiration,” the concert featured works written by Shakespeare that inspired both operas by Bellini and Verdi, as well as transcriptions by Franz Liszt. Ms. Miyoshi also served as collaborative artist for two singers as part of the concert, Soprano Celeste Siciliano and Bass Philip Phillips.

Here is the full program:

I

Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434

Franz Liszt (1811—1886)

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

II

Macbeth

Studia il passo, o mio figlio...Come dal ciel precipita

Giuseppe Verdi (1813—1901)

PHILIP PHILLIPS, Bass

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

III

Réminiscences de Norma, S.394

Liszt

Ms Miyoshi

IV

Norma

Sediziose voci…Casta diva…Ah! Bello a me ritorna

Vincenzo Bellini (1801—1835)

CELESTE SICILIANO, Soprano

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

Ms. Miyoshi is the 2019 First Prize Winner of the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition and has been studying with Steinway Artist Cosmo Buono for the past six years, following studies in her native Tokyo since age three. She makes her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut on Sunday, May 3, 2026 under the auspices of the Alexander & Buono, and Marcello and Graziano Roviaro Foundations.