Aiko Imaizumi
Aiko Imaizumi is a native of Japan and started playing the piano at the age of eight. She studied at Kikuzato High School in Nagoya as a music major. In 2004, she attended Tokyo University of the Arts where she earned her Bachelor of Music Performance degree.
Aiko has been featured in concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya, Hamamatsu and many other cities in Japan and the United States. She was awarded 3rd Prize in the Central Japan Chopin Competition, the Special Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Asia, and was accepted to the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy.
In 2009, she started her music studies at Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College where she earned her MA degree. In 2015, she made her recital and concerto debut with the Nagoya Chamber Orchestra after completing her studies abroad. Aiko studied piano under Hiromi Hattori, Hiroko Fujii, Emiko Harimoto, Shun Sato, Christopher Oldfather, and Ursula Oppens.
Currently she is on the adjunct faculty of Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University.