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Tomoki Miyoshi attends Koyo Conservatory in Japan. He began studying music composition and piano in Sydney, Australia in 2007. He has studied piano under Grant Foster and received composition training from Dr. Treavor Pearce and Bill Motzing at the Sydney Conservatory of Music. He has entered the composition section of the Sydney Eisteddfod/McDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge and has won the following prizes: 2nd Prize for Under 14s in 2007 for his work "15 Preludes for Solo Piano", and 1st Prize for under 18s in 2008 for his work "Rag Fantasy for Solo Piano". He has also been selected as one of the four finalists to rework his orchestral work "L’Infinito for Orchestra and Mezzo-soprano" with the Sydney Symphony Sinfonietta and Richard Gill in 2009. In July 2009 he was involved in the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program that was taught by Film Composers Hummie Mann and Tim Huling. In August 2010, he had his composition, ‘Sentimental Value for Violin and Piano’ premiered at “PASSION: Twilight Legacy” held at Tokyo by Hiroaki Yura. In July 2010, he participated in the Berklee College of Music's summer course program for Music for Video Games. He was selected as one of the 8 composers to be part of 'Section 2' of the course where he had his composition conducted by Wataru Hokoyama, and had his composition played by live players. The piece can be heard on this site, "Okami for Strings and Piano". He returned to Japan in 2010 to study at the Berklee International Network school, Koyo Conservatory. He is currently studying as a Composition major. He wishes to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a Film Scoring major. ..