Born in Osaka, Japan. 

Aya Nakanishi was graduated from a high school of the arts and worked at an art gallery. 

One day she found an article on the  newspaper of violin making school. She was interested in it very much and decided to enterViolin Making School OSAKA, Japan.

 

She studied basic techniques of violin making there for three years after Takao Iwai and Ikuko Suzuki, both are disciples of Gio Batta Morassi and Giorgio Scolari in Cremona.

 

After graduated, she got married to her husband who was a student at the same school and started working together from 2002. She mainly make a violin and a viola

A member of the “Japan Master Violin Makers”