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Meet Harumi...

She is an active member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Colorado State Music Teachers Association (CSMTA), Broomfield Music Teachers Association (BMTA), and Boulder Area Music Teachers Association (BAMTA). For CSMTA and BAMTA, she has worked on revising/creating the test materials such as Theory test, Terms & Signs test, Ear Training test, and History test. Also she has chaired festivals and competitions for many years.

As a collaborative performer, she has accompanied school choirs, church choirs, and individual instrumental and voice students at the competitions and recitals. She is currently an organist/pianist at a local church, and a piano accompanist for a local choir group.

As a singer, she has sung in auditioned chorus groups such as Colorado Music Festival and Boulder Bach Festival. She also has played the trombone for about ten years, and played the harpsichord for a year.

Native of Japan, Harumi holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management that she earned at the Matsuyama University of Commerce in Japan.

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Harumi Shiraishi has earned the master's degree in piano performance and bachelor's degree in piano performance with honors at the University of Colorado Boulder.

As a piano teacher, she has been teaching piano to children and adults for twenty-five years in her private studio. Her students have been performing actively in public concerts and festivals such as the Clementi festival (requires audition), Kids for Bach festival (requires audition), Achievement Day (her students earn super-achiever medals), Marvelous Musicale, and other local public recitals.

As a piano technician, after completing the course at the Piano Technician's Academy, she continues her study and practices with local more experienced technicians, and has been tuning and servicing clients' pianos in Boulder, Denver area for a few years.