Misako Osada-Holt

About Misako Osada-Holt

Misako Osada was born in Japan in 1989 and began to study the piano when she was six and violin a year later. After winning a prize at the “Kanagawa Junior Competition” she made her first appearance as piano soloist with Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eight.

In April 2000, at age ten, she received a scholarship from The Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Irina Zaritskaya (Ukraine)Prof. of Royal College of music, The Yehudi Menuhin School, and Purcell School, and Marcel Baudet (France/Holland) Prof. of Amsterdam Conservatory and The Yehudi Menuhin School, regularly taking part in concerts both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In January 2002, at age 12, she won “the Japanese National Competition”, which resulted in a number of solo performances throughout Japan. In 2006, at age 16, as prizewinner of “the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, Holland”, she was invited to give a recital tour in the Middle East.

In the U.K., from age 10 – 25 Misako has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Dorking Halls and at St. James’s Piccadilly. At this time at age 15, Misako assisted in teaching music theory and piano at a music academy in London.

In 2007, at age 17, Misako went to Germany under the tutelage of Prof. Vladimir Krainev (Ukraine) Pro. of Musik Hochschule Hanover, to study the intricacy of international piano competitions. She returned to London in 2009, at age 19, winning a scholarship to study with Joan Havill, Senior Prof. of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Subsequently, at age 23, she assisted Joan Havill in teaching piano to Guildhall’s undergraduates for period of two years, where she also participated in multi disciplinary improvisational sessions with the drama department. Some of the Alumni includes Alistair McGowan, Ewan McGregor, Dido, Daniel Craig, Orlando Bloom, Lennie James, Dominic West, Joseph Fiennes, Damien Lewis, Leslie Sharp, Thomas Ades, and Paul Lewis.

At age 18, accredited by Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, Misako started to teach privately preparing students for its exams. 100 percent of her students graduated with distinction.

Misako has participated in many international master classes working with such artists as Pascal Devoyon(France) Prof. of Universität der Künste Berlin, Klaus Schilde(Germany) Prof. and President of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Michel Beroff(France) Prof. of Paris conservatory CNSM, Andras Schiff (Hungary) World renown Concert Pianist and Hamish Milne(U.K.) Prof. of Royal Academy of Music, Emanuel Krasovsky (Israel) Prof. and Head of Keyboard Department, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University, Ronan O’Hora (U.K.) Prof. and Head of Keyboard at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In 2010, at age 20, Misako was presented by The Razumovsky Academy at the Wigmore Hall as an “Up and Coming Young Artist”. Academy awarded her a scholarship with the generous support of the Franco­British Society to attend “The Ravel Academy” in Saint Jean de Luz, France in 2011 where she was another awarded the prize “Musiciens entre Guerre et Paix”.

In 2012, at age 22, representing The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, she was a finalist in “The Intercollegiate Jaques Samuel Piano Competition”, winning the Audience Prize where 300 conservatory pianists competed for this prestigious prize. Subsequently later that year, she won “the Oxford Music Festival Professional Recital Prize” held among various international piano artists in England.

Misako was awarded the Craxton Memorial Trust and Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Award, a Masters Degree for Advanced Instrumental Performance in 2013 – 2014.

In 2015 She has won the highest ranking prize at “the Tokyo International piano competition”.