Dr. Mutsuko Dohi

Mutsuko Dohi was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from the prestigious Toho-Gakuen Conservatory in Tokyo, she returned to Hokkaido to teach music and perform with musicians of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and other well-known groups. In 1997, she moved to Russia to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music. In 2000, she was placed second in an international chamber music competition in Kyiv, Ukraine. Later that year she toured across Russia, performing as a soloist with local orchestras, such as The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra, Volgograd Symphony, and the Kislovodsk Symphony. Since 2001, she has been the music director of the annual Japan-Russia music festival, “Japanese Spring in St. Petersburg”. In 2001, she received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 2003, she was placed second in an International duo competition in Kazan, Russia. In 2007, as a part of the G8 Hokkaido summit, she was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan to perform at the opening of the Mariinsky Theatre New Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. She teaches at her studio in Oakland Hills, judges various competitions, and performs at the Bay area venues.

She continues to be an adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, and was invited to judge at the inception of the World Pianist Competition held at the Kennedy Center for the Arts.