Biography

Aisa was born in Kyoto, Japan. At the age of 7, she made her first public appearance playing Beethoven's Sonata op.49 no.2 at the Kyoto Alti Hall. At the age of 15, she was a concerto soloist with the Capella Cracoviensis Symphony Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw and was a recitalist at the Concert House in Stockholm. Since then her performances have taken her to France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Holland, the U.K, Korea and throughout Japan.

Aisa has given regular piano solo, piano duo and chamber music recitals in many important venues including the Izumi Hall, Ongaku no Tomo Hall (Tokyo), Biwako Hall, Purcell Room, Steinway Hall, LSO St.Luke's, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Fairfield Hall, Regent Hall, Chopin Manor and at many international festivals including The International Holland Music Session, Bath Recital Artist Trust, Leeds International Concert Season, Beethoven Society of Europe, Piano Forum Hochschule der Kunste Berlin, Piano Conference Liszt Academy Budapest, International Chopin Festival- Duszniki Zdroj. Her concerts have been broadcast on BBC1, PBS television-Malta and FM e-radio in Japan. She has given sensational concerts with the Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra with whom she performed Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No.2 in 2007, and Chopin's Concerto No.1 in 2008, and performed Grieg's Concerto with the Orchestra Musica Celeste in 2009. She gave a debut recital at Tokyo Opera City in 2010.

Aisa was awarded a Bachelor's Degree at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm (2004), a Master's Degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (2005) and an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London (2007). Her principal teachers have been Haruko Imai, Ruriko Kase, Anders Kilstrom, Stefan Bojsten, Paul Roberts, Andrew Ball and Gordon Fergus-Thompson. She has also participated in master classes with distinguished musicians such as Pascal Devoyon, Yonty Solomon, Leslie Howard, Alicia Paleta-Bugaj, Peter Eicher, Ronan O'Hora, Martin Roscoe, Staffan Scheja, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Klaus Hellwich, Lee Kum Sing and Bernard Roberts.

Aisa has won many competitions and prizes in Japan, 1st prize at the Marlow Music Festival Recital Competition 2005 (highest overall award), Gold Medal at the Marlow International Concerto Competition 2006 and she was a semi finalist at the Luciano Gante International Competition 2007 in Italy and a finalist at the 2008 JILA international competition in Tokyo. In 2009 she was given a special award for promotion of the arts by the mayor of Shiga, Japan.

Aisa also takes a great interest in contemporary music and has already premiered many pieces which were dedicated to her by living composers. In 2005, she worked in collaboration with conductor George Benjamin and performed piano and orchestral works by Wolfgang Rihm.

Aisa has been recently invited to become a Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons, and is also an artist for the Beethoven Society of Europe, the Pennington Mellor Munthe Charity Trust, Markson Pianos, Bath Recital Artist Trust and the Keibun Club.