BIO
MAYUMI KIMURA MEGURO is a classical and film composer.
Mayumi has composed and arranged music for clients including the United Nations, University of Michigan and the Parliament of Canada. She composed the music for "Chinglish" by Tony award winner David Henry Hwang set in production by the theater department at the University of Michigan by Director Hector Flores Komatsu. She wrote the music for University of Michigan's Bicentennial Celebration video which was played in front of 60,000 people at the Big House Stadium. Mayumi has composed scores for several short films featured in international festivals including the Traverse City Film Festival. Her works have been performed in venues around the world including Singapore, USA, Mexico, and Japan. Mayumi has been the recipient of the 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Morton Gould Award.
Mayumi began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 at the Yamaha Academy of Music in Mexico. When she was 12 years old, she was accepted in Mexico's National Conservatory as a piano major. Then at 13 she was admitted to the prestigious advanced course in composition "Junior Original Concert" (JOC). She's had multiple performances at the world-renowned music halls in Mexico, Sala Ollin Yolliztli and Sala Nezahualcoyotl. Her composition Shinanogawa no Yube (composed at the age of 13) formed part of the Yamaha's 50th Anniversary National tour and was broadcasted on national Mexican television.
Wanting to pursue composition more seriously, at the age of 15, Mayumi went to study abroad with a merit scholarship to the renowned fine arts boarding school Interlochen Arts Academy. She received the Fine Arts Award: Outstanding Merit in Music Composition from Interlochen, and graduated in 2012 with high honors as a Composition Major and Piano principal.
She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a triple major in Music Composition, Music Theory, and International Studies, with a minor in Business Administration and Marketing from the Ross School of Business.
She has been a composition student of Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfeld, Cheryl Van Maanen, John Boyle, and Arturo Sanchez Guzzi.
Mayumi is currently a Human Rights and Public Information Intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In addition to doing work in the UN Human Rights Office, she has been arranging and composing for the UN Symphony Orchestra and the UN Singers Choir.
Mayumi has composed and arranged music for clients including the United Nations, University of Michigan and the Parliament of Canada. She composed the music for "Chinglish" by Tony award winner David Henry Hwang set in production by the theater department at the University of Michigan by Director Hector Flores Komatsu. She wrote the music for University of Michigan's Bicentennial Celebration video which was played in front of 60,000 people at the Big House Stadium. Mayumi has composed scores for several short films featured in international festivals including the Traverse City Film Festival. Her works have been performed in venues around the world including Singapore, USA, Mexico, and Japan. Mayumi has been the recipient of the 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Morton Gould Award.
Mayumi began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 at the Yamaha Academy of Music in Mexico. When she was 12 years old, she was accepted in Mexico's National Conservatory as a piano major. Then at 13 she was admitted to the prestigious advanced course in composition "Junior Original Concert" (JOC). She's had multiple performances at the world-renowned music halls in Mexico, Sala Ollin Yolliztli and Sala Nezahualcoyotl. Her composition Shinanogawa no Yube (composed at the age of 13) formed part of the Yamaha's 50th Anniversary National tour and was broadcasted on national Mexican television.
Wanting to pursue composition more seriously, at the age of 15, Mayumi went to study abroad with a merit scholarship to the renowned fine arts boarding school Interlochen Arts Academy. She received the Fine Arts Award: Outstanding Merit in Music Composition from Interlochen, and graduated in 2012 with high honors as a Composition Major and Piano principal.
She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a triple major in Music Composition, Music Theory, and International Studies, with a minor in Business Administration and Marketing from the Ross School of Business.
She has been a composition student of Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfeld, Cheryl Van Maanen, John Boyle, and Arturo Sanchez Guzzi.
Mayumi is currently a Human Rights and Public Information Intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In addition to doing work in the UN Human Rights Office, she has been arranging and composing for the UN Symphony Orchestra and the UN Singers Choir.
