Mayumi Iida was born in Japan and started to learn the piano at the age of three. She continued her studies at Tokyo University of Liberal Arts with Shinichi Shiino and Akemi Tadenuma prior to coming to London where she graduated through the Postgraduate Performance course at the Royal Academy of Music, with Colin Stone.
Mayumi Iida Mayumi attended master classes with Frank Wibaut in Japan, with Victor Rosembaum in U.S.A. and with John O'Coner in the Netherlands. She won many prizes in Piano competitions held in Japan from the age of 10. In 1989 she was a prize winner at the Kamakura City Music Competition. And she was awarded first place at her Master's Recital at the Tokyo University of Liberal Arts in 2002. Encouraged by a Schubert competition in Germany in 2003 she went on to participate with success in other international competitions.

Mayumi has given solo recitals in Tokyo and London. She had solo recitals at Bolivar Hall in London and at H. Matsuo's studio in Tokyo in April 2003. She has played a Mozart concerto with Kamakura City Orchestra in Japan in 2004. She has performed in the Japan 2001 Festival in England, in 1999 took part in a concert at the Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall and in the Viola Festival in Harlow as a member of a piano trio.

Her international engagements have included concerts in the UK and Japan. She is also a wonderful accompanist and chamber musician. A concert series with violinist Akane Sato in London and Tokyo in 2006 were a great success. In the same year she played for the Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex at 'The City of London Festival', a triumphant return to Bristol Cathedral, and Radio broadcast concert in Warminster.

Mayumi combines her performing activities with her role as a teacher. She has experience teaching in specialist music schools and giving private tuition at all levels, from beginners to advanced.