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Ayane Nakajima

piano

Japanese-American pianist Ayane Nakajima has garnered recognition as a celebrated prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including Pianale, Young Texas Artists, International Keyboard Odyssiad and YoungArts. Her performance highlights span the U.S and Europe at venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall and Steinway Hall and New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and the New World Center. She is set to make her German recital debut this upcoming season. 

In addition to her solo performances, Nakajima is a dedicated interpreter of song. She is the top prize winner of the 2024 Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition, 2024 AESS Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition and also a laureate of the 2023 Lies Askonas competition. Among numerous additional accolades, she was nominated as a 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar, was awarded the 2023 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and is the winner of the 2024 Royal College of Music Concerto Competition.

Growing up in New York City, Nakajima began her piano journey at the age of 3 under the mentorship of Chaim Freiberg at the Kaufman Music Center. From ages 6 to 17, she studied with Hiromi Fukuda and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She received her bachelor of music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas, under Jon Kimura Parker. Nakajima is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Royal College of Music in London with Danny Driver, where she is a Big Give Michael Whittaker Scholar. She has worked with renowned artists such as Jeremy Denk, Dina Yoffe, Akiko Ebi, Uta Weyand, Ronan O'Hara, Caroline Hong, Malcolm Martineau, Elena Levit and Marina Lomazov.