Ayaka Usami

Ayaka Usami

Graduated from the music department of Kano High School in Gifu Prefecture, and Aichi University of the Arts. A scholarship student of the Yamada Sadao Music Foundation. She studied piano with Junko Yamada, Emiko Ueno and Keita Kosaka, and completed the Master Course of Gifu Liszt Academy of Music 2016 in the Piano Division under the guidance of Professor Sándor Falvai. In 2021, she was selected to perform in the "Concert by student musicians of Aichi University of the Arts". While in university, she began performing with her father, Atsuhiro Usami, a flutist. She has appeared in " French Pieces for Flute and Piano", "Longing for Vienna and Composers", and "Longing for Foreign Scenes - The World of Debussy". About her CD album "French Flute Pieces", one magazine* wrote "Ayaka's piano shows sharpness with Ravel's accompaniment." The album has been a long seller. (*Music magazine "Music Modern" issued in October 2018.)