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Mio Tamayama was born in Tokyo, Japan and started her musical journey at the age of three with the piano. Since the age of nine, she was active as a Double Bass player in the youth orchestra of Nerima and since the age of fourteen at the Brokat Philharmonic Orchestra.

After her piano education at the TOHO Music Junior High School, she studied Double Bass at the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts and Tokyo University of the Arts under Prof. Yoshino Nagashima.

She continued with her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz (Music University in Mainz), where she graduated her Bachelors in 2018, her Masters in 2020 and her Konzertexsamen with honours in 2023 under Prof. Waldemar Schwiertz.

Mio Tamayama was 2016 Main Scholarship Recipient at the Zirp (Future Initative) Scholarship of the State Rheinland-Pfalz. At the 12th Michał Spisak International Music Competition in Poland (2018) she received fourth place and was also awarded with the "Interpretationsprize“.

She received the fifth prize at the second State Music University Competition of the Peter-Pirazzi-Stiftung 2018 and obtained an award at the International Kontrabass-Quarantine-Challenge of the Johann-Matthias-SpergerCompetition 2020. In 2021 she appeared as Soloist at the SWR-Radio.

Mio Tamayama played at the Neumeyer Consort (Barock Ensemble) and with the Orff-Akademie of the Munich Radio Orchestra. She went through an Internship at the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and was an Akademist of the Philharmonic Statesorchestra of Hamburg.

As guest she played at the Ensemble Resonanz, at the Hamburg State Opera, at the Mecklenburg State Orchestra of Schwerin, at the Stuttgart State Opera, at the Bremen Philharmonic, at the State Theatre of Braunschweig, at the Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker and at the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

Since 2018 she has been teaching as a lecturer at the University of Music in Mainz. In 2023 and 2024 she was invited as a guest lecturer at the NRW Bass Camp and HanseBass Camp 2024.

In 2024 she founded the Double Bass Weekend in Japan with Yosuke Motoyama and Uli Schneider.

From 2016 to 2021, Mio Tamayama was associate principal Double Bassist at the Theater Plauen-Zwickau (Clara-Schumann-Philharmoniker Plauen-Zwickau).

Since 2021, she is a Vorspieler of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover.