Education
Garrett attended the Sydney International Piano Masterclass Festival in 2012.
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Umi Garrett
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Garrett began serious study of the piano under the instruction of Mistress Itoe Akimoto and Mistress Yoshie Akimoto. Currently, Garrett studies with Mr.
John Perry.
In May 2009, Garrett appeared on National Broadcasting Company"s The Ellen DeGeneres Show., and has been invited to perform at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont as the youngest performer in the 26-year history of the festival. She also plays the violin and has taken ballet since she was two and a half. Garrett captivated European audiences in August 2009 as a performer in several concerts at the Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg. and Germany in selected solo and chamber music works.
Also in 2010, Garrett had an appearance with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops sponsored by National Public Radio"s From the top, and her orchestral debut with the Desert Symphony in Palm Desert, California in December 2009, performing Mozart"s Piano Concerto Number.
23 in A major. Garrett made her China debut with the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra in 2010 at the age of nine at Wuhan. In 2011 Garrett performed at the Assisi nel Mondo Festival.
Garrett has performed with the Charlotte Symphony in Florida, Thayer Symphony in Massachusetts, Saddleback Symphony in California, Indiana Chamber Orchestra in Indianapolis, and the Missouri Symphony in Columbia. On March 2012 Umi Garrett performed at The International Piano Stars Festival in Latvia being the youngest performer in the festival"s history.
This year she performed again at the Assisi nel Mondo Festival.
Umi Garrett created a special concert series called "Kizuna Concert Series" to visit people in Tohoku, Japan, where the Tsunami happened in 2011. She had 4 concerts in Tohoku in March 2013.
