Aya Tominaga holds a degree from the Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, in 1997 she recieved the Saitama prize in Japan. The Following year she moved to Amsterdam to study with Prof. Matthijs Verschoor.

She has been finalist in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and she has recieved the German publisher Bärenreiter’s Urtext Prize.

In 2003 Aya Tominaga made her debut from the soloistclass of the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. She is currently working as an accompanist and teacher of piano and chamber music at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and at Aarhus Music School.