Born in Toyota city Japan, Sachika grew up in Birmingham. Sachika started playing the piano at age of five and has given performances internationally in the UK, Turkey and Japan. Her playing has been broadcast on Turkish and UK radio. She has performed in major venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room. She has won many prizes in music festivals in the Midlands, which lead
to her concerto engagements with Sutton Coldfield Orchestra and South Birmingham Sinfonia playing the Schumann Piano Concerto and Mozart’s Concerto No.21. She has performed in numerous music festivals, such as: International Scarlatti Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Gumusluk International Classical Music Festival in Turkey.
Sachika has gained Undergraduate and Masters degrees at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied with Charles Owen. She was partly supported by the Pam Jelf Memorial Fund to assist her studies. Her previous teachers include Robert Markham, Guy Jonson and Carolyn Tailby. Sachika has performed in masterclasses given by Noriko Ogawa, Leslie Howard, Joan Havill, Gulsin Onay and Stephen Kovacevich in Dartington Festival where she was awarded a full scholarship.
As well as being a soloist, Sachika has worked extensively on chamber music. She worked with Suzuki Method string groups in Birmingham and she was also invited to be an accompanist at the Gumusluk International Music festival 2009 in Turkey and Aberystwyth Music Fest 2011. Sachika has performed with many flautists, singers, cellists and clarinettists under the guidance of internationally renown artists such as the Flautist Arife Gulsen Tatu, the Cellist Alexander Baillie, Lieder Professor Richard Stokes and the Clarinettist David Campbell. She has been a pianist for Alexander Baillie’s class at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has also worked with actors under direction of Joseph Blatchly also at the Guildhall School. She recently started a piano duo with pianist Gunel Mirzayeva.
Sachika teaches piano at St Paul’s Cathedral School in London.
She is now studying for an MA in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Dussek.