Saori OYA was born in Tokyo in 1973 and received her first piano lessons when she was four years old. From 1982 she was a student of Prof. Yoshiko Katayama.
At the age of 14 she became a finalist in the National Competition of Japan for Young Pianists, and in 1992 she was selected by the German-Japanese Association to perform as a soloist in London, Frankfurt, Dresden and Leipzig.
After studying at the Toho Gaken High School of Music from 1989 to 1992, she obtained her B. A. Diploma in the soloists division of the Toho Gakuen College of Music.

In 1996 she became third laureate of the Tama Fresh National Competition and she won the Special Prize for Piano Accompaniment in the National Competition of the Belgium Credit Communal.
At the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels she obtained with Great Distinction the Higher Diploma for Piano in the class of Boyan Vodenitcharov, and for Chamber Music in the class of Viviane Spanoghe. She followed several master classes, a. o. with Jos Van Immerseel and Murray Perahia, and she is currently specializing in chamber music with Luc Loubry, Jan Michiels and Boyan Vodenitcharov.

She recently participated in concerts of the contemporary music ensembles, Champ d'Action, Ensembles Musiques Nouvelles, Prometheus Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble and Flanders Opera.
The highlights in her agenda for 2002 were, on the 9th of June, a solo recital in the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts in the "Mont-des-Arts on Sunday" series and in November and December, the concerts with the Brussels Royal Conservatorium Orchestra, where she performed Brahms First Piano Concerto.