Tominaga, Akane
Born in 1997 in Japan, she originally learned the electronic organ at a Yamaha music school, switching to percussion at age 14. In 2014–17 she played percussion in the NHK Nagoya Jr. Orchestra; since 2019 she has performed with Stavanger Symfoniorkest. She studied percussion in Aichi (Japan) and Stavanger (Norway). She now continues her education at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon. In 2020 she won De Unges Konsert award for her solo performance with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2021 she appeared with Oslo Philharmonic, and in June 2022 with Stavanger Symfoniorkest.