Born in Tokyo in 1988, Saiko Iwakura got her first piano lesson at age 5. In 2004, she was admitted in the Toho Highschool of Music in the class of Prof. Yoshimi Tamaki. During her whole time at Toho, Saiko was a part of every student concert organized by the school including the graduation ceremony, an honor only given to the best students. In 2005, she won the 59th edition of the japanese national high school students piano competition. She continued her musical education in the Toho university from 2007 until her graduation with honors (valedictorian) in 2011. One year later, her first solo recital followed, in the Tomono hall in Tokyo. That same year, she was awarded the J.S.Bach prize in the international piano competition of Yokohama. In 2011, the Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper) invited her among other top ranking japanese students to perform in a concert. She was also invited to perform chamber music in front of the japanese emperor in the imperial concert hall "Touka Gakudo". From 2011 till 2015 she has been studying at the Berliner university of arts (UdK) in the class of Prof. Klaus Hellwig. From 2016 she studying at the Lübeck College of Music in the class of Prof. Konstanze Eickhorst. And in the year 2018 she took the master's degree with the best score (1.0). In 2017, she was a Semi-Finalist of Ile de France Intarnational Piano Competition.In April 2018 she returned to Japan completely and her concerts of solos and chamber music are planned.