Miki Aoki made her London Royal Festival Hall debut at the age of 12 and has since continued to perform in international venues. Recognized for her diverse abilities as pianist and as a collaborative artist, Ms Aoki combines her career performing solo recitals and chamber music, with working alongside young violinists.

Ms Aoki is currently appointed as senior lecturer at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts, in Austria. Ms Aoki is recording exclusively for German Label Hänssler Profil. Her first CD of Z. Kodaly's piano works was released in the fall of 2011 and won critical acclaim. BBC Music magazine called it „...a genuinely memorable performance“. The second CD, The Belyayev Project, featuring fascinating compositions varying from solo piano works by Liadow, Glazunov and Blumenfeld to the Piano Trio by Rimsky- Korsakov will be released in 2013. Her third CD, Mélancolie is planned for release in 2015.

Ms Aoki has performed on the stages of such prestigious venues as St. Martin-in-the Fields, St. John’s Smith Square, the Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room at South Bank Centre, the Barbican center (U.K.), Laeizhalle, Philharmonie Essen (Germany), Munetsugu Hall (Japan), Wiener-Saal Salzburg, as well as in festivals such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommen, Salzburger Festspiele, Rheingau Festival (Germany), Menuhin Festival in Gstaad (Switzerland), Beaulieu-surla Mer (France), Tembi Festival (Inodnesia), Phnom Penh International Music festival (Cambodia) and International Classical Music Festival. (Myanmar). She has performed with National Symphony, London Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Hamburg Camerata and Washington Sinfonietta.

The legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman invited Ms Aoki to his Chamber Music festival in Long Island, USA in 2006.

Ms Aoki's performances have been broadcasted on NDR-North German Radio, RBB-Radio Berlin Brandenburg, BR Classics, WDR, Radio Suisse Romande and Hessicher Rundfunk, 98.7 WFMT Chicago.

Ms Aoki started playing the piano at age 4 and moved to London at age 9 where she joined the Purcell School of Music. She holds degrees from Indiana University and Yale University. In 2007 Ms Aoki obtained a distinction in the Konzertexamen degree at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

Her main teachers were Roshan Magub, James Gibb, Reiko Neriki, György Sebök, Boris Berman and Evgeni Koroliov.