Megumi Masaki (born 9 September 1963) is a Japanese-Canadian pianist, multimedia artist, educator, researcher, arts administrator, conductor, and curator. Early life and education Masaki was born in Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. She began her piano studies in Winnipeg with Alice Nakauchi and continued with Leonard Isaacs. She received her Bachelor of Music (Hons.) in Piano Performance from Western University in London, ON, studying with Ronald Turini and Peter Katin. Her graduate degree in Piano Performance and Literature was also from Western University, and her Master's thesis, A Survey of Toru Takemitsu's Solo Piano Music, was supervised by Dr. Jack Behrens. Post-graduate work was at the Royal College of Music in London, UK, where she received an A.R.C.M. (Associate of the Royal College of Music) Diploma in Piano Performance, and an Advanced Studies Diploma in Piano Performance under the instruction of Kendall Taylor, with Philip Wilkinson as her academic supervisor. Career Academic Since 2006, Masaki has been a member of the piano faculty at the School of Music at Brandon University in Brandon, MB, Canada, and she was made a full professor in 2014. In 2007 Masaki founded the educational outreach project "Masaki's Rising Stars of Brandon University" in partnership with rural arts associations, schools, and personal care homes. Masaki received the Brandon University Alumni Association's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010. In addition to piano instruction and pedagogy, Masaki directs Brandon University School of Music's New Music Ensemble and its New Music Festival. In 2019, in collaboration with Brandon University Indigenous Peoples' Centre Knowledge Keeper Barb Blind, Masaki founded the BU Indigenous New Music Festival, featuring contemporary classical music by Indigenous composers. Masaki is also on faculty at the Casalmaggiore International Festival, a solo and chamber music summer school and festival in Casalmaggiore, Italy; the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in Banff, AB, Canada; and Chetham's International Piano Summer School in Manchester, UK. She is artistic director of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. In 2016, she was a Musician in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, specializing in interactive electronics and video and serving as an installations mentor., and in 2022 she served on the faculty of the centre's Evolution: Classical 2022 artist development program. Masaki is a member of the Advisory Council for the Canadian Music Centre's Prairie Regional Office and the board of the Canadian New Music Network. She has served as