Pianist Mika Sasaki is a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator based in New York City, whose performances and teaching have taken her to the U.K., Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and throughout the U.S. Her solo debut album, "Obsidian: Mika Sasaki plays Clara Schumann," was released on Yarlung Records in 2016, was highly acclaimed by the Online Merker as “illuminat[ing] the artistic inspiration and creative exchange between three Romantic souls,” Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. She has appeared on Radio Sweden, KQAC, WQXR and WFMT radio, and in festivals such as Music@Menlo, Tanglewood, Estherwood, Chigiana, pianoSonoma, Taos, Yellow Barn, and Aspen. Dr. Sasaki is the pianist of Ensemble Mélange (formerly @SHUFFLE concert), a sextet that uniquely invites audience members to choose what they want to hear from a “menu” comprised of two dozen pieces of various styles. She is an alumna of the Peabody Conservatory (B.M., M.M.), The Juilliard School (D.M.A.), and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. Dr. Sasaki teaches piano and keyboard skills courses in the Evening and College Divisions at Juilliard. mikasasaki.com