About the Musical Accompanist

A native of Japan, Sanae Miyazaki started studying piano at the age of four. She received Piano Performance certifications from the Yamaha Music Foundation and PTNA (the Piano Teachers’ National Association of Japan.)

Since coming to the United States, Ms. Miyazaki received her MM in organ performance at Manhattan School of Music. She was a music coordinator at the Church of St. Bernard in White Plains, NY where she played the organ and the piano accompanying both English and Spanish Masses. Formerly music director and an organist at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hawthorne, NY, she currently serves as an organist at the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, NY.

Sanae is an active collaborative pianist and Basso Continuo player. She has worked with numerous chorus groups and ensemble productions, including the Nyack College Chorale, The Calvary Choir, and the Jubilee Chorus. Those performance venues include The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, The Greater Allen A. M. E.  Cathedral of New York, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity (NYC), and the Westchester County Center. She is currently an accompanist for the Westchester Chorale and Westchester Children’s Chorus.

Ms. Miyazaki has been a member of the music faculty at Nyack College since 2012 and a member of The American Guild of Organists as well as that of Associated Music Teachers League.

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