Born in Osaka in 2001, Aï Nakano began studying the violin at the age of three. After winning numerous prizes at competitions in Japan and giving many recitals, she graduated from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020. 

In 2020, Aï Nakano joined the Paris Conservatoire – CNSMDP. Having obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2023 and currently studying for her master’s, she is a student of Roland Daugareil, Jiyoon Park and Christophe Poiget.
She was a semi-finalist at the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition (China) in 2019 and won the Jury’s Special Prize at the ‘Triomphe de l’art’ International Competition (Belgium) in 2021.
She was concertmaster of the Super Kids Orchestra under the baton of Yutaka Sado in 2019, and held the post of concertmaster of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes under the baton of Michael Schoewandt in 2022 and 2023.
She also performs with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris and the Orchestre national de France. She took part in the Verbier Festival Orchestra in 2024.

She is also passionate about chamber music and obtained her bachelor’s degree in chamber music from the Paris National Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
She took part as a scholarship holder in the Schiermonnikoog Festival in the Netherlands in 2022 and 2023, and subsequently at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland in 2023.

She was a musician-in-residence at the Paris National Opera Academy during the 2023/2024 season, before joining the Orchestre de Paris as a section leader at the end of August 2024.