Miharu Ogura/ Music

Miharu Ogura, a composer and pianist from Tokyo, Japan, is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Her career started in 2018 when she received seven awards at the 13th International Piano Competition in Orléans, including the "André Chevillon - Yvonne Bonnaud" Composition Prize. In 2023, she won Second Prize and the Prize for the best performance of works by Messiaen at the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in Grenoble. Ogura’s debut album, Ogura Plays Stockhausen (2023), and her second album of original compositions (2024) were released under Thanatosis Produktion. As a composer, she has been commissioned by France Musique and the Biennale di Venezia, with her works performed by ensembles and soloists like Trio Estatico, Francesco Tristano, and Filippo Gorini in venues such as Teatro alla Scala. Her music is published by SZ Sugar and she was a scholarship recipient of the Mozart Foundation of 1838 in Frankfurt am Main 2024-2025. In 2026, she presented a new commission for saxophone and string quartet at the Mostra Sonora Festival in Sueca, Spain, and a new work for solo viola will be premiered by Lawrence Power in London. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Toho College of Music, where she studied piano under Yumiko Meguri and composition under Masahiro Ishijima. In 2021, she graduated from the graduate program at the same institution with a major in composition. She then pursued a master’s degree in piano, followed by the Konzertexamen, with Florian Hölscher at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.