Rate My Professor Mihoko Watanabe

Watanabe’s research specializations include ethnomusicology with a focus on Japanese traditional music; she received a research grant from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh to study Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei for solo flute in Japan. Her key publications feature an article on Mei in The Flutist Quarterly (Spring 2008), translated into Dutch for Fluit (2011) and German for Flöte aktuell (2013). Active in chamber music, she is a member of faculty ensembles such as the Musical Arts Quintet, whose CD American Breeze was released in 2012 on Albany Records, Duo Viva with Doppler Effect (2006, Little Piper), and Duo Rouge with Two by Three (2024, Parma Recordings). She premiered Jody Nagel’s flute concerto From Days of Yore with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra in 2012. Among her honors are prizes from the Japan Flute Association and National Flute Association competitions, and top prize in the 2015 SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge. Watanabe presents lecture-recitals and workshops at conferences including the National Flute Association and College Music Society, serves as an international clinician and adjudicator, and teaches flute studies, literature, pedagogy, and entrepreneurship courses at Ball State University.