Hikari Fukuda was born 1967, Tsuyama, Okayama and studied piano at Kunitachi College of Music, and musicology at Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University and Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. She studied piano under Eiko Terasaka, Keiko Hironaka, Fusako Osaka and Hiroko Kashu, and musicology with Professors Yoshihiko Adachi, Seiichi Tohkawa and Ichiro Sumikura. She performed at “Concert for the centenary of the birth of Darius Milhaud”[a] at Paris in 1992. Since her first recital in 1998, she mainly features J. S. Bach’s keyboard works. She gave the two separate cycles of Bach’s keyboard works from 2005 to 2014. She performed at the 8th Tsuyama International All-Round Music Festival in 2011. She also performed with a number of orchestras and gave duo and joint concerts. Along with her concert performances, she has given the popular PTNA piano seminars including an “Intensive Seminar on Bach’s Inventions” and “A Lesson-like Style Intensive Seminar on Inventions”. Those seminars are based on the concept of “enjoy playing baroque music by getting more familiarity.” In these years, she studies temperaments and period instruments, and presents her studies by giving “Musical Temperament Concert Series” and lecture concerts on exploring the connection between modern pianos and period instruments. She writes an article series on “Let’s Give More Enjoyable Lessons on Bach’s Inventions” in the Musica Nova magazine. She is a member of the National Piano Teachers’ Association of Japan (PTNA).