Piano 

Until May 2025, Hiroko has served as a piano instructor at German state music schools for 12 years. After 20 years in Europe, she returned to Japan. She began playing the piano at the age of four and won top prizes, excellence awards, and special jury prizes in national piano competitions, including the Machida City Piano Competition, Young Artist Piano Competition and Japan Piano Competition.

Hiroko graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, where she studied under Hidemitsu Hayashi and Mikhail Voskresensky. She then pursued a Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK studying under Joan Havill.

With a deep interest in German composers, she pursued advanced studies under Gerald Fauth at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, in the city where J.S. Bach lived and worked.

This institution, where Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn once taught, awarded her the Konzertexamen (National Concert Diploma) with top honors, followed by the Meisterklassenexamen (equivalent to a doctoral degree) in Piano Solo, supported by a full scholarship from the German government. During her studies, Hiroko taught secondary piano. She also won first prize in the university’s Freundeskreis Scholarship Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with the Philharmonic Altenburg-Gera and the Leipzig Chamber Philharmonic. Additionally, she won third prize in international piano competitions in the UK and Italy.

After completing the Meisterklassenexamen, she was awarded a full scholarship to the Fellowship Program at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, where she studied under John Perry, expanding her musical horizons in a global setting.
 

In 2013, Hiroko started working as a piano instructor at a state music school Musikschule Mittelsachsen in Saxony, Germany. In 2016, she collaborated with fellow members of the piano trio “TrioSono” and released the album Gefunden in cooperation with MDR (Central German Broadcasting). They performed in concerts across Germany, including at the Semperoper Dresden. That same year, she relocated to Berlin, where she continued working as a piano instructor at Berlin's government state music school Musikschule City West. In addition to her teaching and performing career, she has actively participated in charitable activities, including collaborations with UNICEF. Several of her students have been accepted into prestigious institutions such as the Berlin University of the Arts and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Hiroko is fluent in English, German and Japanese.