Born in Kobe, Japan, and a Parisian since 1990, Victoria Tomoko Okada is a pianist, doctor of musicology and music history at the Sorbonne, and music journalist for several classical music websites, including ResMusica.com, Transfuge Magazine, Total Baroque Magazine, and Crescendo-Magazine. She has been writing the ‘Arts and Entertainment’ column in the Japanese monthly magazine La France since 2009. Victoria is a member of the International Music Press Association. A lover of books, she is also a sought-after translator in the cultural sector, mainly music and fine arts, and is a member of the Association des Traducteurs littéraires de France (Association of Literary Translators of France).