Michiyo Morikawa, pianist, was born in Nagano, Japan and began playing the piano age of five. Ms. Morikawa graduated Toho Gakuen School of music in Tokyo. Ms. Morikawa was a volunteer music teacher at the La Gran Familia Orphanage in Mexico. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Karl Ulrich Schnabel and a Professional Studies diploma from the Mannes College of Music. Currently, she continues her musical studies with Germán Diez. Ms. Morikawa has received several honors including First Prize and the Special Composer's Prize at the XII Concurs de Piano Premi Ciutat de Berga in Spain, the Japanese American Association Piano Competition in New York City, Special Prize at the first Concurso Internacional de Piano "Ignacio Cervantes" in Cuba, and First Prize at the UNAM Young Soloist Auditions in Mexico City.

Ms. Morikawa has performed concerti with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, and in Mexico, the Filarmonica de Jalisco, the Sinfonica de Coyoacan, and the UNAM Chamber Orchestra. She is a frequent recitalist in the New York area, as well as Latin America, Europe and Japan. As a chamber musician and accompanist, Ms. Morikawa has performed with brass players including trumpet player Stephen Burns, Philip Smith and Thomas Smith of the New York Philharmonic, John Rojak of the American Brass Quintet, Stefan Dohr of the Berlin Philharmonic, Antonio Marti of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Scott Thornton of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Michael Rossi of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and Robert Sullivan of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Morikawa is currently a Suzuki piano teacher at the Third Street Music School Settlement and at Greenwich House Music School in New York City.