Asami Sakimoto is a Japanese harpsichordist.

She started to study harpsichord when she was a musicological student, and obtained a master’s diploma in harpsichord at Tokyo University of the Arts. With a fellowship by Japanese government she studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she obtained a bachelor’s diploma. After studying at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels, she completed the master’s degree programme at LUCA School of Arts Campus Lemmens in Leuven with greatest distinction in 2018. She studied harpsichord with Naoya Otsuka, Jacques Ogg, Patrick Ayrton and Kris Verhelst.

As a soloist and a basso continuo player of chamber music ensembles and orchestras she is active in the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan. She performs at various music festivals including the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Festival Midis-Minimes in Brussels. From 2017 to 2019, she gave several concerts of solo and chamber music, playing the harpsichords from the collection of the House of Polyphony in Leuven. In Japan, she gave a solo recital in Tokyo, focused on the works by J. S. Bach and Geminiani. In 2019, she performed a solo program consists of the works by Fiocco and J. S. Bach in the conference of REMA (European Eraly Music Network) at Royaumont in France.

Photo: Alexandra Bertels