Born in Osaka, Japan, Masako Kamikawa started learning the piano with her mother, who was a piano teacher.
After completing basic musical education in Japan, she continued her education in Germany where she studied piano and chamber music at the States Conservatory Mannheim, and the States Conservatory for music and dramatic art Stuttgart.
 

During her studies she was awarded scholarships from “The podium for young artists Stuttgart” and “The Richard Wagner federation of Germany (Richard Wagner-Society)”.
 

Upon finishing her education in Germany, Masako Kamikawa participated in Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger ́s master classes in Germany and London.
 

Today she lives in Germany and performs in Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria and in Japan as a soloist. She gives also concerts as a chamber music pianist with Mikael Samsonov (violoncello), with Professor Dirk Peppel (flute) as well as with the members of the SWR-Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart.
 

In 2011 she also started working with piano improvisation in a co-project with new age musicians as well as at the Conservatory for drama in Stuttgart with Professor Verena Weiss. (“Improvisation- piano and body-performance”).
 

She is also a piano tutor at a music school in the Stuttgart area and gives piano workshops at several music schools in Germany and at the music conservatory of Basel in Switzerland.
 

Since 2016 she is the head organizer of the Feuchtwanger Piano Symposium in Germany. “Peter Feuchtwanger is my ideal pianist and the most important teacher for me. I’m very happy and grateful to have met him and to have worked with him for many years.”