She has made world-wide concert appearances as a soloist at Festivals and concert series in Aldeburgh, Bath, Dartington, Huddersfield, Dublin, Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels, Berlin, Rotterdam,Valencia, Alicante, Oslo, Viitassari, Riga, Vilinius, Warsaw, Bludenz, Lausanne, Tel Aviv, Rome, Macerata, Venice, Sydney, Tokyo, San Diego, New York and Minneapolis.

For the British NMC label Noriko has recorded works by Gerald Barry and James Dillon’s The Book of Elements Volumes I - V. The latter received unanimous acclaim including ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone. Her earlier Scriabin recital CD from Live Notes, Japan, was also hailed as a major artistic achievement: “ …rivalling the greats of the so called Golden Age… one of the great Scriabin recitals on disc.”  A second Dillon disc for NMC includes chamber music with Irvine Arditti and the Arditti Quartet.

Concerto engagements have included the first performance of Dillon’s Andromeda, with the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, in London ( BBC Proms 2006 ) and Glasgow, and Lachenmann’s Ausklang in ‘ Transcendent -  the Music of Helmut Lachenmann’ presented by the Royal College of Music. Noriko also gave the French premiere of Andromeda, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege/ Pascal Rophé at the festival ‘Musica’ in Strasbourg. At the Arena Festival in Riga ( Latvian National Symphony Orchestra/ Zsolt Nagy ) she performed ‘Alternative World - Versions’ by Saed Haddad, and in San Diego ( La Jolla Symphony Orchestra / Steve Schick ) Scriabin’s ‘ Prometheus ‘. Her more recent performances of Dillon’s Andromeda were given at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Steve Schick ) and the Gaida Festival Vilnius ( Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee)

A passionate chamber player she has worked with Arditti Quartet, Leopold String Trio, Quatuor Diotima,  Irvine Arditti, Rohan de Saram, Benny Sluchin and the Baritone Philip Zawisza.

Noriko gave the first complete performance of Etudes Mystérieuses by Saed Haddad at the French Academy of Villa Medici Rome and her recording of this work for the Wergo label received The German Record Critics’ Award. ( Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”) in November 2010.

in January 2020 she gave the complete performance of James Dillon’s The Book of Elements Volume I - V as a part of the ‘International Piano Series’ at the South Bank Centre, London and in November gave the world premiere of ‘echo the angelus’ by the same composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival/ BBC Radio 3, both performances winning the highest critical acclaim.

As well as her concert activities, Noriko has been active teaching, served as a Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music, London 2004-08, and associate professor of piano and chamber music at the School of Music, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities between 2007-13. 

In high demand as a teacher she continues at her private studio in London.