Biographies

Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim - Hatsumi Miura

Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim was born in Bayonne, France. She has a Doctor of Letters degree from the Sorbonne, where she taught harmony until her appointment as Maitre de Conferences at the University of Bordeaux, where she teaches music history. She was a pupil of Susan Landale, Marie-Claire Alain, and Jean Langlais, and continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, where she obtained First Prizes in organ, improvisation, harmony, and counterpoint; and Second Prizes in fugue, instrumentation, and orchestra under the direction of Rolande Falcinelli, Jeanine Rueff, Jean-Claude Henry, Marcel Bitsch, Serge Nigg, and Paul Mefano. She is also Licenciate Performer in organ from the Trinity College of Music in London. She was awarded first prizes in organ and improvisation at the international competitions of Rennes, Beauvais, Saint Alban, and Second Prize in interpretation at Chartres. Titular Organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris, she participates as guest recitalist and teacher in European and American Festivals, and as juror in international competitions.

Hatsumi Miura is resident organist at Yokohama Mirato Mirai Hall in Japan, where she plays C.B. Fisk’s Opus 110 organ. Educated at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, she has studied with Tusguo Hirono, Guy Bovet, and with Yuko Hayshi at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded the Artist’s Diploma. In addition to winning competitions in Japan and Switzerland, she has performed in the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and the United States. At present she also serves as organist at All Saints Chapel of Rikkyo University in Tokyo.