Keiko Omura is a historically informed keyboard artist and pedagogue, active internationally across a wide spectrum of musical and cultural disciplines.

Born in Osaka, Japan, she began her formal training in piano performance and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, studying piano with Klaus Schilde and completing a programme in music pedagogy. She received the Diplom-Musiklehrer qualification, becoming the first Japanese recipient of this title. She received the Diplom-Musiklehrer qualification, becoming the first Japanese recipient of this title.

Upon returning to Japan, she taught at the Yamaha Music Foundation’s special programme for gifted children and gave numerous piano recitals across the country.

In 2006, she resumed her musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar. There she studied piano with Gerlinde Otto; harpsichord, clavichord, and basso continuo with Bernhardt Klapprott; orchestral academy with Stefan May and Georg Christoph Biller; and chamber music with Midori Seiler. She was awarded the Diploma in Harpsichord Performance, deepening her commitment to early music.

Keiko later obtained four Master of Arts degrees from the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz: in Fortepiano Performance, Fortepiano Pedagogy, Harpsichord/Early Music Performance, and Harpsichord Pedagogy.

Her principal teachers included Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano), Jörg Halubek (early music, including harpsichord, basso continuo, orchestral academy, and opera performance), Brett Leighton (harpsichord performance and basso continuo), and Rudolf Jungwirth (organ).

She has also participated in numerous international masterclasses with distinguished musicians, including Bob van Asperen, Mark Kroll, David Shemer, Pierre Hantaï, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, and Bart van Oort, further refining her interpretative insight and historical awareness.

From 2012 to 2015, Keiko lived and worked at Kremsegg Castle in Upper Austria, home to one of Europe’s most significant historical piano collections. As Assistant Curator of that Instrument Museum, she conducted in-depth research on period instruments and regularly performed on original fortepianos and pianos from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

She organised and led educational activities, including lecture-recitals, seminars, and children’s demonstrations using historical instruments representing distinct stylistic periods.

Keiko continues to perform on a wide range of keyboard instruments—virginal, spinet, clavichord, harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and modern piano—selecting each according to the demands of historical authenticity and expressive clarity.

Her repertoire spans from Renaissance works to contemporary compositions, guided by a spirit of inquiry and poetic interpretation.