Tomoko Akatsu Miyamoto, a native of Japan, received her music education at the Juilliard Pre-College, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Sweelink Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her teachers include Allan Birney, Yuko Hayashi, Harald Vogel, Luigi Tagliavini, and the late Klaas Bolt.

She has performed in public since 1974 on historically correct organs by contemporary builders in the United States and in Japan, and on original historical instruments in Europe. In Japan, she has dedicated organs by such builders as Hiroshi Tsuji and Tetsuo Kusakari, as well as the first Regal by Munetaka Yokota. In 2003 the prestigious music label, Loft Recordings, released Tomoko's album "Bach at Ferris University" which celebrates the school's unique Taylor & Boody Opus 17 tracker organ.

Since 1980, Tomoko has worked with Michigan instrument builder Keith Hill to introduce clavichords into Japan. She is a co-founder of The Japan Clavichord Society.

As professor of organ at Ferris University, Tomoko is responsible for the organ program. At the Music College of Ferris University, regardless of their majors, all students are required to study at least one year of organ in weekly class lessons, and since 1993, the Opus 17 of Taylor & Boody has served to convert over a thousand of those graduates into organ lovers.