Masako Kamikawa, born in Osaka/Japan, studied piano and piano chamber music at the States Conservatory for Music, Mannheim and the States Conservatory for Music and Dramatic Arts, Stuttgart.

She won Scholarships from the Richard Wagner Association and the “Podium Foundation for Young Artists” Stuttgart. In addition, in 2021, she was awarded a Scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry´s Department for Arts and Science for her innovative ideas on Artistic performance.

The pianist became known through her private studies with Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger in London. She was deeply impressed by Feuchtwanger´s natural piano technique and by his sensitive musicality and decided to study with him to change her previous technique completely.

Masako Kamikawa performs regularly as a soloist in Germany, UK, Switzerland, Austria and in Japan. She has given chamber music concerts as a duo partner of flautist Prof. Dirk Peppel and piano quartet performances with the members of the SWR (Southwest Radio) Symphony Orchestra.

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With the cellist Mikael Samsonov she currently maintains a long term duo partnership.

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Masako Kamikawa loves artistic excursion in the genre of experimental and improvised music and is working occasionally on projects with electronic music as well as with art and light installations, and has done since 2011.

From 2012-2019 she was a co-worker in the project “Improvisation – Body performance and piano music” with the dramatic arts students at the Conservatory Stuttgart managed by Prof. Verena Weiss.

Since 2015 Masako Kamikawa conducts the annual „Feuchtwanger piano symposium“ in Feuchtwangen in Germany.