With Music, Day By Day

Born in Tokyo. She graduated from the Piano Department and the Pedagogical Diploma Course of Toho Gakuen School of Music (Tokyo). Charmed by the Catalan music, devoted herself to her studies in Barcelona at Academia Marshall with the professor Alicia de Larrocha, etc. She won the highest prize at the Federico Mompou Memorial Competition. She received the teaching of life as well as music from Mrs.Carmen Bravo de Mompou, and the enchantment of the Spanish music from Mr. Jiro Hamada. Besides performance activities, she also runs a musical journey (MJ) piano studio that nurtures spontaneous and free expressive power of children of the community to deliver them to the future.

武蔵野音楽大学声楽科、早稲田大学文学部フランス文学専修卒業。パリ第IV大学修士（比較文学）修了。第29回フランス音楽コンクール（大阪）第２位入賞および日仏音楽協会＝関西賞、フランス総領事賞他受賞。第11回日仏声楽コンクール（東京）第３位入賞。アンリ・ソーゲ国際コンクール2000“L'art du Chant”（マルティグ）「フランス歌曲賞」受賞。カミーユ・モラーヌ、中村浩子、川村英司、村田健司の各氏に師事。演奏活動は幅広く、特に精緻なディクションによってフランス近代歌曲での評価が高く第17回以来日仏声楽コンクール審査員を務める。ヴォーカル・アンサンブル・カペラ、ムジカ・センペンティスなど古楽アンサンブルメンバーとして中世・ルネサンス音楽の分野で多くの演奏、録音に参加。 オペラへの出演も、グルック「思いがけない巡り会い」、トマ「ミニヨン」、マスネ「マノンの肖像」、ドビュッシー「アッシャー家の崩壊」、セヴラック「風車の心」、石桁眞礼生「河童譚」、三木稔「うたよみざる」、青島広志「火の鳥（ヤマト編）」など、日本初演作を含んで多彩である。伊福部昭氏の作品には深く傾倒し、意欲的に演奏を重ねると共にCD「伊福部昭の団体歌」をリリース。日本フォーレ協会、コンセール・C、東京室内歌劇場会員。

Chiaki Yamazaki was born in Tokyo, Japan.

She began playing the violin at the age of four and was initially taught using the Suzuki method. She continued her studies at Toho Gakuen High School of Music, and then at Toho Gakuen University of Music.

Her teachers included Toshiya Eto, Angela Eto and Shigeki Oshita.

From 1997, Chiaki studied under Ivan Straus for two years at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.

She then moved to Spain in 1999 to play with the Real Sinfonica de Sevilla.

Returning to the Czech Republic two years later, she joined the Zapadcesky Sinonicky Orchestr Marianske Lazne, of which she would later become concertmaster.

From 2005, Chiaki played with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra as assistant concertmaster.

Since her return to Tokyo in 2015, she has been busy as a performer, composer and arranger. Chiaki specializes in composing and arranging for string instruments, and some of her works have been performed internationally.

Fluent in five languages, Chiaki's translation from Czech into Japanese of Zdeněk Gola's treatise Vibrato was published in 2017 (Ongaku No Tomo).

In addition to extensive performances in Japan and the Czech Republic, she has also played in Italy, Germany, Brazil and the USA.