Born in Nara, Japan. Shizuyo Le Nestour started piano lessons at the age of four. She started study with Ms. Meiko Miyazawa at the age of six. Her debut as a pianist was to perform “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Nara Symphonic Band in 1981. In 1986, she received a Master of Arts in Piano Performance from Osaka College of Music in Japan. In 1987, she was invited by the Spanish Government of attend the San Tiago de Compostela International Music Academy in Spain. She received prizes for both Rosita Lopes Communion, which is only awarded to the best pianist, and Rosa Sabatel at the academy. In 1988, she gave many recitals sponsored by Spanish Embassy and the Böesendorfer Japan Inc. In the same year, she moved to Paris, and received the concert artist diploma from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris by unanimous consent. In 1993, she received the third prize at the Henri Sauget International Competition in France and the third prize at the Paris International Chamber Music Competition in the following year. She also studied the cembalo at Saint-Maur National Conservatoire of Music where she was the gold medalist in cembalo performance in 1996.
From 1990 to 2003, she was the assistant for Mr. Camille Maurane, who was one of the greatest baryton-martin. She learned accompany vocalists, vocal techniques, French diction, and how to interpret French lyrics and translate them into Japanese. Since 2002 she has studied the Roy Hart voice techniques from Ms. Michèle Laforest.
Since 2000 she has composed many original poems in the style of waka, one of the Japanese traditional styles of poetry under the name of Reyne Le Nestour. For many years, she has written essays based on Mnyoshu, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, in a coterie magazine, Kokuriko in Paris. She collaborates with composer Ms. Yoko Nakatani, and their works such as “Muthstama”[2001], “Sayokaze”[2002], “Hisakatano”[2004], “Nibiiro no Tori”[2010] were performed in Japan, the United States and Belgium.
Ms. Le Nestour has been actively performing in France, Italy, Japan and the U.S., and her repertoire is extensive from Baroque to Contemporary.
She was invited to Barklee College of Music in Boston to give lectures and solo piano recitals in 2010 and 2011. She is currently the official pianist at École Normale de Musique de Paris.