Tomoko Harada is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano certified by the Music Teachers
National Association and the Piano Teachers Society of America. She is also a recipient of the The Allison
R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching, and Madame Genia
Robinor Pedagogy Award both presented from Piano Teachers Society of America; and Laura R. Conover
Pedagogy Award for Outstanding Teaching from Cecilian Music Club. She has also received numerous
pedagogy awards in recognition of students' preparation to international, national and state competitions.
As winners of international and national competitions, her students have performed at prestigious venues
including Weill Recital Hall-Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Steinway
Hall in NYC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and in Washington, DC among others.
She has also been invited to serve as a jury at competitions and auditions of numerous music organization
including NJ Music Teachers Assoc., Music Teachers National Association (State of NJ), Music Educators
Association of NJ, Piano Teachers Society of America, and other music competitions including Young
Artists Concerto Competitions for Livingston Symphony Orchestra and Manalapan Battleground
Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Scholarship Competitions for MacDowell Club of
Morris County, Golden Key Music Festival Competition of American Concert Alliance, Cecilian Music Club
Young Artists Showcase Competition, among others. Currently she is an adjunct professor of music at
Seton Hall University as well as maintaining a private studio in Basking Ridge, New Jersey teaching many
prize winning students.
Ms. Harada was awarded the First Prize of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Competition and Peninsula
Music Competition, performing as a soloist with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra under the late
Maestro Takashi Asahina. Her performances were broadcast on radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and
New York City. Ms. Harada received degrees from the Mannes College of Music in New York City under
the tutelage of Nina Svetlanova as a scholarship recipient. Ms. Harada further received Le Diplome
Superieur D’Execution at L’Ecole Normale de Music de Cortot de Paris, France under the tutelage of
France Clidat. Her teachers also include Adolph Baller from Stanford University and Jean-Marie Darre in
France. She has also studied at the Fontainbleau School of Arts, France and International Academy of
Nice, France.
National Association and the Piano Teachers Society of America. She is also a recipient of the The Allison
R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching, and Madame Genia
Robinor Pedagogy Award both presented from Piano Teachers Society of America; and Laura R. Conover
Pedagogy Award for Outstanding Teaching from Cecilian Music Club. She has also received numerous
pedagogy awards in recognition of students' preparation to international, national and state competitions.
As winners of international and national competitions, her students have performed at prestigious venues
including Weill Recital Hall-Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Steinway
Hall in NYC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and in Washington, DC among others.
She has also been invited to serve as a jury at competitions and auditions of numerous music organization
including NJ Music Teachers Assoc., Music Teachers National Association (State of NJ), Music Educators
Association of NJ, Piano Teachers Society of America, and other music competitions including Young
Artists Concerto Competitions for Livingston Symphony Orchestra and Manalapan Battleground
Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Scholarship Competitions for MacDowell Club of
Morris County, Golden Key Music Festival Competition of American Concert Alliance, Cecilian Music Club
Young Artists Showcase Competition, among others. Currently she is an adjunct professor of music at
Seton Hall University as well as maintaining a private studio in Basking Ridge, New Jersey teaching many
prize winning students.
Ms. Harada was awarded the First Prize of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Competition and Peninsula
Music Competition, performing as a soloist with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra under the late
Maestro Takashi Asahina. Her performances were broadcast on radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and
New York City. Ms. Harada received degrees from the Mannes College of Music in New York City under
the tutelage of Nina Svetlanova as a scholarship recipient. Ms. Harada further received Le Diplome
Superieur D’Execution at L’Ecole Normale de Music de Cortot de Paris, France under the tutelage of
France Clidat. Her teachers also include Adolph Baller from Stanford University and Jean-Marie Darre in
France. She has also studied at the Fontainbleau School of Arts, France and International Academy of
Nice, France.
Tomoko Mizuno Harada