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Born in Tokyo.
At the age of 16, she moved to Mexico City and started to study with Maria Teresa Rodriguez where she began performing solo recitals and making broadcasts. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Mannes College of Music in New York where she studied under the tutelage of Leon Pommers. She won the Alexander Tcherapnin Prize for Contemporary Music in New York. Later, she moved to Belgium where she studied with Yvegenia Braginsky, Mikhail Faerman and Eugene Moguilvsky at the Royal Brussels Conservatory. Here she won the Premier Prix and Diplome Superieur, both with distinction. In 1998, she undertook advanced study of Prokofiev’s piano music at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow with Olga Zukova. Since 1997, she has been performing a series of Russian piano music recitals and integral of Prokofiev’s music in Japan and in Europe.