Biography
Born in Nagoya in Japan, began her piano studies at early age under the influence of her mother.
After graduated Toho-Gakuen school of music (Japan) in the class of Midori Miura, she obtained a 1er prix with excellence guided by Prof. Alan Weiss at Lemmens instituut in Belgium.
Equally her advanced training she guided by Lilya Zilberstein and Pavel Gililov.
She is the prize-winner of the “Young artist development “by the Japanese culture of minister. And also obtained scholarship by Yellow Angel Foundation Japan.
Regularly appearing in the musical scenes such as Philharmonie de Paris,Suntory Hall in Tokyo ,Salle Pleyel in Paris, Palais des Beaux Ars in Brussels, Theatro Colon in Buenos Aires .
Akane has been invited to perform with renowned orchestras including the Kremerata Baltica,Sinfonia Varsovia, Symphoniker Hamburg,Orchestra Della Svizzra Italiana ,Tokyo symphony orchestra under baton of Alexander Vedernikov, Jean-Jacques Kantorow,Naoto Otomo and Hubert Sudant.
Also regularly invited to the various festivals: La Roque d’Antheron (France), La folle journée Nantes and Tokyo (France,Japan), Chopin and his Europe (Poland), Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano(Switzerland) ) Rhur Klavier festival(Germany) and Pacific Music Festival (Japan).
Always enthusiastic playing chamber music, partners such as Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Akiko Suwanai, Yuzuko Horigome, Nicholas Angelich, Evgeni Bozhanov, Nelson Goerner, Edgar Moreau, Alexandra Conunova.
She has recorded for DG and Warner Classics, Avanti classic,and made her solo CD debut by King International.
Since 2018 she is artistic planner of the Martha Argerich festival In cooperation with Symphoniker-Hamburg.