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Mie Miki ‘Accordion JS Bach’ CD Re-issued, Tokyo – Japan by Rob Howard

Video 1: Sara/Coba by Mie Miki "Accordion Works 2010" @ Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, Tokyo

Video 2: Libertango, Mie Miki and Hideki Ikegami

3. Mie Miki plays Rameau Tambourin from her French Baroque Music Album

Videos and sound file above: View/listen to the superbly versatile Mie Miki performing three different genre of music. In 1996 Japanese accordion virtuoso Mie Miki recorded many of the works of JS Bach, and this album has been re-released on CD, available via various internet sources. The tracks include: French Suite No. 5 in G major BWV.816, French Suite No. 6 in E major BWV.817, French Overture (Partita) in b minor BWV.831, Anna Magdalena Bach Music book (1725) from Musette in D major BWV Anh.126, Polonaise in G minor BWV Anh.119, minuet I (G major) BWV Anh.114, Minuet II (G major) BWV Anh.116, Minuet III (G minor) BWV Anh.115, March (D major) BWV Anh.122. Mie Miki started playing the instrument at the age of 4. At the age of 8, she made her first radio broadcast for NHK in Tokyo. At the age of 16, she moved to Germany to study at the Trossingen Academy of Music. After completing her studies and winning some competitions, Mie Miki started her active performing career in Europe and Asia. In the 1980s, she was invited to introduce the classical accordion for the first time in the People’s Republic of China. Mie Miki has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras. A concert series ‘Mie Miki Accordion Works’, featuring numerous premières, takes place every year in Tokyo and more than 60 works have been dedicated to her by composers. Currently Mie Miki is a Professor for Accordion and Vice-President at the Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen in Germany, and Honorary Professor at the Xinjian Arts College in China.