Kikuko Satoh

She was taught koto and shamisen by her mother from an early age. At the age of twenty-five she completed the NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) course of technical training, and in 1985 she graduated from Gedai Arts Univesity, going on to acquire her music mastership at g raduate school in 1987. She has toured America, Turkey, Hungary, China and Russia. She was an assistant on teh staff of GEdai from 1994 to 1996, and the following year passed the NHK recital audition. She is a member of the Miyahi Association, and has made recordings with the group Mutsu-no-o