Keiko Nakata
Biography Keiko Nakata
Keiko Nakata
was born in Japan and began her organ studies with Keiko Utsumi and Hatsumi Miura. Then she became the pupil of Tsuguo Hirono and Rie Hiroe at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai) where she obtained both her Bachelor and Master of Music degree. Her master thesis “ A study of Toccata C-dur BWV564 ” which is highly regarded was published in Japan Organist 38 in 2011. She also studied harpsichord with Naoya Otsuka and Masaaki Suzuki at Tokyo Geidai. She is organist at the protestant church of Yukinoshita in Kamakura Japan, and a member of the association of Japan organist. In 2014, she finished her student life of organ in Paris, France, as the pupil of Christophe Mantoux at the regional conservatoire of Paris, and also harpsichord with Noelle Spieth. In October 2013, she won the Grand Prix and also the special prize of interpretation of contemporary works in the Andre Marchal international organ competition in Biarriz.
