Born in Tokyo, Ayako Fujiki started playing the piano as a young child and performed her first concert at age seven, playing Beethoven and Chopin. She has been performing in Japan, Spain, UK, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Colombia and Bulgaria. Ayako has developed her skill with renowned pianists Alicia de Larrocha (winner of the 1994 Premio Princípe de Asturias de las Artes) and widow of Igor Marchevich, Carlota Garriga at the Marshall Academy, Barcelona, specializing in Spanish music also, with Carmen Bravo Mompou, specializing also in the compositions of Frederic Mompou, with Jan Wijn at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Holland, with Chung Lee at Graz University, Austria, with Narcis Bonet at the L’Ecole Normale du Paris, France, with Irina Ossipova, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, with Christopher Elton, Royal Academy of Music, London, and many other major Japanese pianists including Naoko Matsuno and Momoyo Nakai. According to Carlota Garriga “she proves to have high sensitivity and excellent piano playing skills” and from Carmen Mompou “she certainly has a promising career ahead”.