Masachi Nishiyama is increasingly gaining recognition for her work both as soloist and as a collaborative pianist. She has performed at numerous venues ranging from music clubs to St.Martins-in-the-Field, St. James’s, Piccadilly, Bristol and Southwark Cathedrals and Oxford Colleges to many music festivals worldwide; France, Italy, Austria, Japan and in the UK. She made her debut solo recital in Tokyo at the International Artist Association of Japan, where she won the Special Prize, and later won first prize at the Hokkaido Music Camp in Japan.

Nishiyama’s repertoire encompasses music from the Baroque era to the present day. One of her more recent projects has been to give fifteen recitals of Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations. Her playing was described as engaging in a web review from Classical Source and demonstrated superb control and sympathy with the music. She also has a deep love of the work of Debussy and Ravel and a performance of her Ravel was selected by Piano Magazine as one of the most memorable performances at the Dudley International Piano Competition in 2002.

She also enjoys her work as chamber musician, regularly giving duo recitals with the violinist Haruko Motohashi, both in the UK and in Japan.  Avocado Music Productions will be releasing a CD of their performances later in 2010. In 2008/2009 She has performed Messiaen's " Quartet for The End of Time" with London Messiaen Quartet many times and the performance was broadcasted on Warminster Community Radio.  Also She has collaborated  with DivaDivo, a duo opera singers, and they have performed together at many concerts.  

Born in Japan, Masachi Nishiyama  studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, graduating with B.Mus degree and winning many prizes during the student. She came to London in 1999 where she studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded the Maud Hornby Prize. She pursued further study at The Royal College of Music and she was awarded the Diploma of Advanced Performance and concluded her studied by becoming a finalist in the prestigious Chappell Gold Medal competition.

She is very grateful for the personal guidance she has received from such eminent musicians as James Lisney, Yonty Solomon, Hidemitsu Hayashi. Jacque Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli, Joseph Seiger, Clifford Benson, John Barstow, Andrew Ball, Simon Nicolas, Andrew West, Vanessa Latarche, Gordon Fergus-Thomposon, Nelson Goerner, Alexander Baillie (cellist), Richard Markson(cellist), Paul Barritt (violinist) and Darragh Morgan (violinist).