Mayumi Hirasaki studied violin in her hometown of Tokyo and in Nuremberg, Baroque violin and harpsichord in Munich and Lucerne, as well as church music in Bamberg and Nuremberg. Her teachers included Daniel Gaede, Mary Utiger, Christine Schornsheim, and Giuliano Carmignola. 

She has taught at the universities of Nuremberg, Essen, and Frankfurt and has held a professorship at the Mozarteum Salzburg since 2017. As of the summer semester 2025, she has been appointed Professor of Historical Violin and Viola at the Universität der Künste Berlin. 

Mayumi Hirasaki is a prizewinner of numerous competitions in Japan and Europe, including the International J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and the Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium. In addition to her work as concertmaster of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, she holds the same position with Concerto Köln and the Gaechinger Cantorey (International Bach Academy Stuttgart). She is also a regular guest with various Baroque orchestras and ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and La Divina Armonia, and performs in concerts throughout Europe, the USA, and Japan. 

Her chamber music partners include performers such as Christine Schornsheim, Lorenzo Ghielmi, and Michael Freimuth. 

Her CD recordings include violin concertos and sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach with Giuliano Carmignola & Concerto Köln, Lorenzo Ghielmi & La Divina Armonia, and Christine Schornsheim, as well as the solo CDs L’Arte della Scordatura and the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Her most recent recording with Concerto Köln, featuring violin concertos and orchestral works by Johann Georg Pisendel, received the OPUS KLASSIK Award in 2023 for Best Concerto Recording. The current recording with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, dedicated to Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphonies from Berlin to Hamburg, was awarded the Diapason d’Or in April 2024. 

Mayumi Hirasaki plays a violin by Domenico Montagnana on loan from a German foundation.