Japanese harpsichordist
Mayako Soné attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music, where she studied piano with Akiko Teranishi and harpsichord with Motoko Nabeshima. After she won a prize at the 1986 Musica Antiqua International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, she studied harpsichord with
Kenneth Gilbert and
Scott Ross, and made her first recording in 1991 on the Erato label, Scarlatti: Unpublished Sonatas, as a supplement to
Ross' recordings. She became the harpsichordist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra in 1992, and has toured with the group, appearing at music festivals in Europe. She has also performed chamber music in Japan, played recitals on radio and television, and taught at Ueno Gakuen University, where she became a professor in 2009. In 2010, she started a project to record the complete keyboard works of Rameau and Couperin. She has specialized in the keyboard works of Bach, giving a series of recitals and recording Toccatas for Warner Classics.