1st Prize winner at the Hannover Competition in 1997 and the second prize at the Paganini in 1992, Michiko Kamiya has performed with the London Philharmonic, the NDR Symphony, the Stockholm Chamber, the New Zealand Symphony and the NHK Symphony Orchestras, under the directions of Charles Dutoit, Myung-Whun Chung and Rudolf Barshai, among others. She has appeared as a guest at the Aspen, Verviers, Ravinia and Kuhmo Festivals. As a chamber musician she has performed with Regis Pasquier, David Geringas, Olivier Charlier, and the Tokyo String Quartet. She is founder and musical director of the Ensemble Art Vivant, a chamber orchestra in Tokyo. She studied with Koichiro Harada at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School of Music and Gyorgy Pauk in London. Having taught at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, she is professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo.