After graduating from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition and organ performance, Masaaki Suzuki continued to study harpsichord and organ at Sweelink Conservatory in Amsterdam under Prof.Ton Koopman and Prof.Piet Kee. Having achieved Soloist Diplomas in both of his instruments in Amsterdam, he was awarded second prize in the harpsichord competition (1980) and third prize in the organ competition (1982) in the Vlaanderen Festival in Bruge, Belgium.
 He has acquired an outstanding reputation as a conductor. Since 1990, he has been the music director of Bach Collegium Japan. Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan has made success for their concerts in Japan, Europe and the US. He has earned worldwide praise for his recordings of Bach's cantatas on the BIS label. In addition, Suzuki has just begun to record Bach's complete cembalo music for BIS and he has given organ and cembalo concerts in all over the country and in Europe.
 Suzuki teaches at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as a professor of organ and harpsichord as well as a faculty member of a new early music division. In April 2001 Suzuki was decorated with Das Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland from Germany.