CO-FOUNDER OF KUROFUNE ENSEMBLE

Master of Music, Longy School of Music at Bard College

Sachiko Murata is an Oboe player, educator and composer based in Boston. Praised for her “Nicely tuned and highly accurate in execution.” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Sachiko Murata has distinguished herself as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician. She is currently Principal Oboe with The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts.

Recent concerts include appearances at Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, Hanover Theater in Massachusetts, Soka Performing Arts Center in California, Hakodate Performing Arts Center in Hakodate, Japan and Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre of Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in Paris, France.

Winning first prize at the Ralph Gomberg Oboe Merit Award Competition led to numerous concert appearances, including a début recital with pianist Edmund Arkus at Hakodate Performing Arts Center, Japan and performance at Pickman Hall as a soloist with Longy Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Murata has a keen interest in contemporary music. She was invited to perform John Harbison’s “Supper at Emmaus” (world premier) as an English Horn player at the Cantata Singers 50th Anniversary Concert in Jordan Hall.

As a composer, her most recent work Kyo-Sen, was highly acclaimed at the 12th Annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue at the Ikeda Center of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ms. Murata studied the oboe in middle school under the instruction of her father, a former principal oboist of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra. She took first prize at the Hakodate City Music Youth Competition. Ms. Murata continued her studies in Tokyo with Yoko Kojima, a member of Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, and then on full scholarship at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Keisuke Wakao of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other mentors have include Peggy Pearson, Robert Sheena, Ray Still, Maurice Bourgue and Roger Tapping.