She is a laureate of numerous competitions, having won, among others, the 1st Prize at the 12th Japanese Classical Music Competition and the 3rd Prize at the 53rd ARD International Music Competition. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician worldwide.

As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchener Kammerorchester, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Camerata Baltica, Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the Japan Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductors like Seiji Ozawa, Johannes Kalitzke, Raman Kofman, Kazuki Yamada, and Günther Herbig.

A series of her recitals in Geneva and Tokyo were broadcast by Radio Swiss Romande and NHK television.

In chamber music, her artistic partners have included Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Hope, Gidon Kremer, Philippe Jarousky, Mischa Maisky, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Ébéne Quartet, the Jerusalem Quartet, and the Kuss Quartet. She has performed with them at international music festivals such as the Salzburger Festspiele, Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, Bad-Kissingen Sommer, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, BBC Proms, Saito Kinen Festival, Festival Pablo Casals, Luzern Festival, Verbier Festival, Kronberg Festival, Rio de Janeiro Festival, San Francisco Musical Days, Schubertiade, and others.

Tomoko Akasaka has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich, Shanghai Grand Theater, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Geneva Victoria Hall, among others.

Tomoko Akasaka studied under Nobuko Imai at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, where she later worked as an assistant to her professor. Additionally, Tomoko Akasaka was a guest professor at the Conservatory in Neuchâtel. Since 2019, she has held the position of professor of viola at the Münster Musikhochschule.

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