Piano and Voice Faculty

Kaori graduated from Japan’s prestigious music school, Kyoto Horikawa Music High School, where she studied vocal performance. She earned her BA from Kobe College and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with an MA in vocal performance, having studied with Herman Leroux and received a outstanding and first place prize in the American Art Song Competition. She received preschool and teaching credentials from San Francisco State University and has Kodály training Levels 1 & 2 from Holy Names University.

She teaches music for TK-8th grades music in San Francisco, Menlo Park, and Redwood City schools as well as private piano and voice students at the Spindrift School of Performing Arts. She also is a musical director at the San Carlos Children's Theatre and the Broadway Babies. She received the Teacher of the year award in 2023.She has worked with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, A.P. Giannini Middle School choir, College Avenue Presbyterian Church, Christ United Presbyterian Church, and her own children’s choir Kirakiraboshi Children’s Choir in Japantown.

She is excited to share her love of music and teaching with the CCM!