is a Japanese pianist who started playing when she was five years old. Later on, she enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts in

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and then studied with

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before graduating from the

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with a master's degree. By 1988 became a teacher there before being promoted to professor in 2006. She was a prizewinner at the José Iturbi Competition in Valencia and the GPA International Piano Competition in Dublin. She has performed such musicians as

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, Lisa Batiaschvili,

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, Veronika Eberle, Walter Nothas,

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and Wen-Sinn Yang and played at various festivals including the

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an Kilkenny Music Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. She has performed in

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, and throughout

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except

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. Her CDs were published by

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and other popular labels.

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