BIOGRAPHY

A recent graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Toki first began learning the piano at the age of four in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, she passed the Certificate of Performance with Trinity College London with Distinction, the Highest Score Award and the Queensland Top of State award, and completed the Associate Diploma the following year. Over the years, she has received a number of prizes for piano, including the Open Scholarship at the Redlands Eisteddfod in 2013, first prize at the Queensland Piano Competition in 2014 and 2017, the Wight Memorial Medal for Piano in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016, and the Jefferies Bursary for Music at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School.

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During her time at the Queensland Conservatorium, she was the winner of the 4MBS Chamber Music Prize, Minnie May Bussey Prize, Ruby Cooling Prize, and the Basil Jones Sonata Prize. She was also the recipient of the Queenslanders Foundation prize for the highest mark in first year piano performance as well as the Sir Samuel Griffith Scholarship, and was selected to perform alongside the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. 

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Recently, Toki has been privileged to attend and perform at the Musical Chairs Festival in Canada, the International Chamber Music Festival in Germany, the European Chamber Music Academy in Lithuania, the Ticino Musica Festival in Switzerland, and the Jiri Hlinka Academy in Bergen. She has performed in the Bergen International Festival and the Oslo Chamber Music Festival as well as in masterclasses with pianists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Paul Lewis, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Elizabeth Pridonoff and Alexander Madzar.  

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Her previous professors include internationally renowned pianists Christopher Park, Håvard Gimse, and Oleg Stepanov.