Since an auspicious US concerto debut at the age of seven, Gramophone Award nominee and international competition laureate Tamami Honma has forged a worldwide career, playing in Europe, Russia, the Middle and Far East and across seventeen states of the USA. She has appeared in some of the world's greatest musical institutions, from the Bolshoi Hall in Moscow to the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London, establishing her position as a leading pianist of the younger generation. In her formative years in the USA, Tamami had already received first prizes in the Stravinsky Awards International Competition and several others, before she moved to New York to become a protege of legendary pianist Byron Janis.

A participant in major festivals such as the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Aldeburgh Festival and the Gaida Festival, Ms Honma has made television and radio broadcasts in Europe and the USA with partners including the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Kreutzer Quartet, the Vilnius Quartet and various American orchestras. Her commercial recordings have won high accolades including a nomination for a prestigious Gramophone Award for her second Metier CD with violinist Peter Shepperd Skaerved (MSV92029). Other recordings include music from Mozart and Chopin to Nigel Clarke (Metier MSV02024).

Honma also recorded McCabe's 2nd Piano Concerto with the St. Christopher's Chamber Orchestra for Dutton Epoch, and premiered his eighth Study ("Scrunch") at Carnegie Hall in 2002, and his ninth Study ("Snowfall in Winter") at St. John's Smith Square, London in 2003. Both studies were written for her. Equally accomplished in traditional and modern repertoire, Honma often incorporates into her concert programmes world premieres of solo and chamber works written for her by distinguished composers from around the world. Tamami currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London.