Mina Hirobe-Perry

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Mina Hirobe-Perry has performed in recitals as soloist, chamber musician in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Ireland, North America, China, South Korea and Japan. She also enjoys concertizing two piano/four hand repertoire. She earned her Bachelor and Master Degrees with honor at Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, where she studied with Prof. Tetsushige Maruyama and Prof. Konstantin Ganev, who was the assistant professor of the eminent pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus at Moscow Conservatory. After three years of concertizing throughout Japan and teaching piano privately, she moved to Germany where she earned her Artist Diploma and served as a correpetitor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She continued advanced study at the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, Canada.

Ms. Perry’s priority is to enable her students to discover their unique style in music making, along with developing their technique for beautiful sound production.  As a dedicated teacher, her students have won numerous competitions locally and nationally, and have been accepted to prestigious music conservatories and universities such as Manhattan, San Francisco, Eastman, Cleveland, Peabody, California State University Northridge, USC, UCLA, Indiana, Boston University, and Hochschüle für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

Ms. Perry is a Founder and Director of John Perry Academy of Music in Los Angeles. This Academy has launched in 2013 and is designed for exceptionally gifted young students. She is also a Founder and Director of the Honors Piano Performance Seminar at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, where she taught private piano lessons, two piano/four hand ensemble, and piano chamber music.  Currently, she focuses guiding exceptionally gifted young pianists both at John Perry Academy of Music as well as her private studio in California.​

In summer, Ms. Perry enjoys performing and teaching at summer festivals world wide such as Summer Music on the Shannon in Ireland, Academie Internationale de Courchevel in France, Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg, Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, Duxbury Music Festival in Massachusetts, Hotchkiss School Summer Portal Piano Program. She is a founder and director of the John Perry Academy Summer festival that has launched in 2013 and has been attracting large number of students from countries such as US, Canada, England, France, Mexico, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia.  She is also frequently invited to give master classes as well as to judge piano competitions nationally and internationally.