Haruna Miyake is active in the contemporary music scene as a composer and pianist. A graduate of New York's Juilliard School of Music, she studied composition with Vincent Persichetti. Ms. Miyake received the E. Benjamin Award for her "Poem for String Orchestra" and made her debut at the New York Composers' Forum with her chamber music works. "Six Voices in June" was commissioned for the opening concert series of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Her works are scored for ensemble, orchestra, voice, and Japanese traditional instruments.

As a pianist, she performs classical, contemporary and improvisational music, and has performed with a wide array of performers including Frederic Rzewski, John Zorn, Wayne Shorter, Richard Stoltzman, Sergei Kuryokhin, butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and Noh player Hideo Kanze, among others.

She has been invited to participate in the Lockenhaus International Music Festival, the Heidelberg Contemporary Music Festival, the Music from Japan Festival in New York, the Pan Musik Festival in Seoul, and other international events.

Works include:
Tu prends la première rue à droit for 4 percussionists (1987)
Play Time after Paul Celan for wind orchestra and piano/synthesizer (1989)
Snow Voice for 6 vocalists, accordion and piano (1996)
From Devastation (Japan National Theater commission for their Modern Buddhist Chant series 1997)
Off Jazz for trumpet and piano (2003)

Miyake's album Air Music is distributed by ALM/Kojima Recording Studio Tokyo.