BIO
MAYUMI KIMURA MEGURO is an award winning classical and film composer.
She has composed and arranged music for clients including the United Nations, the University of Michigan and the Parliament of Canada. Mayumi composed the music for "Chinglish" by David Henry Hwang set in production by the University of Michigan theater department under Director Hector Flores Komatsu. She also composed the music for University of Michigan's Bicentennial Celebration video which was played in front of 60,000 people at the Big House Stadium. Her film credits include 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 is the recipient of the 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Morton Gould Award.
She has studied under composers Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfeld, Cheryl Van Maanen, John Boyle, and Arturo Sanchez Guzzi.
Beginning her studies at Mexico's National Conservatory and the Yamaha Academy of Music in Mexico, Mayumi was admitted to the prestigious advanced course in composition "Junior Original Concert" (JOC) when she was 13 years old. She has had multiple performances at the world-renowned music halls including Sala Ollin Yolliztli and Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City. Her composition Shinanogawa no Yube (composed at the age of 13) was included on the the Yamaha's 50th Anniversary National tour and 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, and graduated in 2012 with high honors as a Composition Major and Piano principal.
In 2017, Mayumi graduated with honors from the University of Michigan as a triple major in Music Composition, Music Theory, and International Studies, with a minor in Marketing and Business administration from the Ross School of Business.
Mayumi is currently a Human Rights intern at the United Nations New York Headquarters. In addition to doing work in the UN Human Rights Office, she has been arranging and composing works for the UN Symphony Orchestra and the UN Singers Choir.
She has composed and arranged music for clients including the United Nations, the University of Michigan and the Parliament of Canada. Mayumi composed the music for "Chinglish" by David Henry Hwang set in production by the University of Michigan theater department under Director Hector Flores Komatsu. She also composed the music for University of Michigan's Bicentennial Celebration video which was played in front of 60,000 people at the Big House Stadium. Her film credits include 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 is the recipient of the 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Morton Gould Award.
She has studied under composers Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfeld, Cheryl Van Maanen, John Boyle, and Arturo Sanchez Guzzi.
Beginning her studies at Mexico's National Conservatory and the Yamaha Academy of Music in Mexico, Mayumi was admitted to the prestigious advanced course in composition "Junior Original Concert" (JOC) when she was 13 years old. She has had multiple performances at the world-renowned music halls including Sala Ollin Yolliztli and Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City. Her composition Shinanogawa no Yube (composed at the age of 13) was included on the the Yamaha's 50th Anniversary National tour and 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, and graduated in 2012 with high honors as a Composition Major and Piano principal.
In 2017, Mayumi graduated with honors from the University of Michigan as a triple major in Music Composition, Music Theory, and International Studies, with a minor in Marketing and Business administration from the Ross School of Business.
Mayumi is currently a Human Rights intern at the United Nations New York Headquarters. In addition to doing work in the UN Human Rights Office, she has been arranging and composing works for the UN Symphony Orchestra and the UN Singers Choir.
