Sachiko Murata

Sachiko Murata (she/her) is an oboist and composer based in Boston. An accomplished oboist known for her expressive artistry and musical sensitivity, she has been praised for her “astonishingly human phrases” and as “nicely tuned and highly accurate in execution” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Sachiko Murata has distinguished herself as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She is currently Principal Oboe with The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra and The Du Bois Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts. Recent concerts include appearances at Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, Mechanics Hall in Massachusetts, Hakodate Performing Arts Center in Hokkaido, Japan, and Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre of Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in France. Winning first prize at the Ralph Gomberg Oboe Merit Award Competition led to numerous concert appearances, including a début recital with pianist Edmund Arkus at Hakodate Performing Arts Center, Japan and performance at Pickman Hall as a soloist with Longy Chamber Orchestra.

As a composer, her commissioned work, Sorrow Songs for orchestra, was highly acclaimed at the Du Bois Orchestra Concert in honor of the 150th birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois in 2019. She joined the Kurofune Ensemble concert tour in Japan in 2016 as a resident composer, arranger, and oboist. The Kurofune Ensemble is an exciting new cultural exchange collaboration between musicians, dancers, and educators from Japan and the U.S.

Ms. Murata studied the oboe in middle school under the instruction of her father, former Principal Oboist of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra. She took first prize at the Hakodate City Music Youth Competition. Ms. Murata continued her studies in Tokyo with Yoko Kojima, oboist of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and then on scholarship at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Keisuke Wakao, Associate Principal Oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.