Shirogane Akiko

Born in Tokyo, Prize-winner of the All Japan Music Competition, Akiko Shirogane studied with Etsuko Tazaki and Minoru Nojima at Tokyo University of Music as a recipient of special scholarship for honor student and at Indiana University in the United States as winner of the TUM scholarship for studies abroad.

Later, she studied with Dominique Weber at the Conservatoire de Musique of Geneva (currently “Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique”) in Switzerland where she was awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité..In addition, she studied with many distinguished musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Julian Martin, Bob McDonald, Marc Durand and Blanca Uribe.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize of Tokyo International Association of Artists, and supported by the foundation La Genevoise, she has appeared at international festivals in Europe, the United States, and Japan including the Verbier Music Festival, Classic Yokohama, Gijon International Piano Festival and Valencia International Piano Academy, Schubertiade by the Television Swiss Romand which broadcasted her solo recitals and her chamber music.

Since 2004, she holds a professorship at the Conservatoire de Musique of Geneva and as adjunct faculty at the Gijon International Piano Festival and the Valencia International Piano Academy.