Grace and Angel wish everyone a warm and wonderful holiday season, and a new year full of great blessings and joy!


Grace performed chamber music with fellow colleagues in Pozuelo, Spain in December. If you missed this recital, you’ll be able to catch her again in Malaga on February 7th.

» Read the review (spanish)

In October, Grace performed the Brahms First Concerto in the opening concert for the Glacier Symphony Orchestra’s 25th year anniversary season in Montana under the baton of John Zoltek.


“Nikae wowed the crowds on Saturday and Sunday…her concentration and delivery were astonishing to watch…” (read all)

As part of the 180th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, Grace will be performing his complete sonatas for cello and piano with cellist, Adolfo Gutierrez Arenas, in a concert at the Auditorio de Zaragoza’s Mozart Hall.


“The piano responded with a profusion of lyrical scales of great musicality …”
-Heraldo de Aragón (read all)

Grace will be in the US with recitals in New York, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Chicago (a live broadcast on WFMT-FM radio). Her duo-piano appearance in Honolulu with special guest narrator Minna Sugimoto from KHNL News 8, will be a benefit concert for The Renaissance Academy.

In addition to two performances in the California Bay area, Grace will also be giving a masterclass at the San Francisco Conservatory on November 27th.


Grace returned again to Japan for a recital and her annual Grace Nikae Piano Seminar for talented students. It was a special visit as it was also the release of a book written by her mother, Kazuko Hashiguchi, entitled “Haha no Ai (A Mother’s Love): Pianist Grace”. The book covers her career as an educator, and the challenges and rewards of raising Grace.

The press acclaimed Grace’s recital with the headline: “Intoxicated by a Polished Performance”.