Taiko Saito

Taiko Saito studied the marimba and percussion at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo under Keiko Abe and percussion under David Friedman at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has won numerous prizes, including first prize at the 2005 Concours International de Vibraphone Claude Giot in Clermont-Ferrand and third prize at the 1996 World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart. Taiko Saito has appeared as a soloist with, for example the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and has performed at festivals in most European countries as well as South Korea, Columbia and the USA.