About

CHIKA SUMIDA

Chika is an international musician. There is no end to her curiosity for music. Her repertoire is broad, from Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Granados, Messiaen, Takemitsu to Piazzolla. In these days, her genre spreads classical music up to modern contemporary repertoire, including jazz and popular music. Improvisation is a new voyage of discovery.

She was born in Japan, started learning piano at the age of four. After graduated Osaka Kyoiku University BA in piano performance, she heightened her skill at Toho Gakuen Graduate School (MA in performance course of piano). Chika is an experienced pianist, who performed with the Toho Academy Orchestra. Specifically, she is passionate about chamber music with strings, voice, horns and percussion. Until now Chika has had masterclasses with Jean-Marc Luisada, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Aquiles Delle Vigne. These are international in location and reach, including Italy, German, Spain and France. She held concerts anywhere; concert halls, churches, live music bars, and community centers for elderlyn not only in Japan but also the UK, Poland.

Chika utilizes her performance in researching music. She specialized in musical research at Kingston University London, the U.K. Her Master thesis titled “The interaction between visual arts and music in the 20th century” received the highest grade, and she was awarded for outstanding achievement in the university. As a researcher, she held several lectures for the public at culture center running by a newspaper company in Japan. All contents were her original, this unique lecture had a reputation, and she is invited to several music events as a guest lecturer. Now she posts a montly column named “Painting and Music“ on a classsical music website “COSMUSICA“.

Adding to researching music, she works as a translator (English<=>Japanese). Her target area is from formal scholarly writing up to casual translation such as blog pages, Twitter, Instagram etc.

She is also experienced piano teacher. So far, her students are from 3 to 70 years old. Her teaching method comes from wide range of teaching materials. She worked at Osaka welfare vocational school and private music schools, teaching piano performance and the history of music.