Duo Kayaki/Ebina

Sawako Kayaki (Soprano, Japan) / Haruka Ebina (Piano, Japan)

Sawako Kayaki 

Sawako Kayaki was born in 1999. Her musical education started with the violin at the age of three. At sixteen, she started vocal studies and this quickly became her principal instrument.

After completing a year at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan, where she studied under Emiko Suga, Sawako moved to Europe to continue her training. Sawako now studies with Dietrich Henschel and is enrolled at the International Opera Academy (IOA). she won 1st prize at the Internationaler Gesangswettbewerb Basel 2021.

Haruka Ebina

Haruka Ebina has won prizes at numerous international competitions. At the 14th International Piano Competition in Orleans, France, she won the Isang Yun Prize sponsored by Unsuk Chin. She also won the highest prize at the Salzburg = Mozart International Chamber Music Competition in Tokyo, Japan. Her repertoire covers a wide musical spectrum, ranging from lied to new music and solo piano music. In 2016, her master class studies took her to the piano class of Prof. Thomas Böckheler at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. She then completed the Master of New Music with Prof. Markus Bellheim and the Master of Lied with Prof. Fritz Schwinghammer, Prof. Rudi Spring and Prof. Donald Sulzen with top grades. She was a scholarship holder of the DAAD and Yehudi Menuhin Live Musik Now München e.V..

Photos: International Competition ""Franz Schubert and Modern Music" and The Schubidu Quartet