Currently she plays principal harpsichord for the New York Symphonic Ensemble and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus and serves as organist at L’Église Française du Saint Esprit. Praised for her “graceful” ( The New York Times) performance, Aya Hamada is an active recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and continuo player. She won first prize in the London Music Festival Competition and second prize in the Josef Hofmann Piano Competition, and was also a winner of the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition and the Artists International Auditions, and is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation (France). She also studied under Kenneth Weiss in New York and Skip Sempé in Paris, and has received additional coaching from Pierre Hantaï and Christophe Rousset. Her teachers have included Ruth Laredo, Richard Contiguglia, German Diez, Louis Bagger and Lionel Party.
Since moving to the USA, she has obtained her Master of Music degree in Harpsichord (2004), and her Graduate Diploma in the inaugural class of Historical Performance from the Juilliard School of Music in New York City (2011), where she was awarded the Irene Diamond Fellowship and the Heward Memorial Scholarship. The Japanese-American harpsichordist, Aya Hamada, made her debut with the Kobe Chamber Orchestra at the age of 17.
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