Masako Bacon earned her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance with a minor in organ from Kobe College in Japan. She was granted the Larson-Suehiro Fellowship in Church Music from Kobe College and completed her internship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She later returned to pursue the Master of Church Music with organ emphasis at Concordia University Wisconsin, where she was also a member of the Alleluia Ringers. Her Doctor of Musical Arts in organ performance is from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Bacon started playing organ for church at age 18 and has served as an organist ever since. After completing her doctorate, she was full-time music director at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln and is currently at First Lutheran Church, Lincoln. Her main duties include overseeing the liturgy, directing the handbell choirs and string ensemble, and nurturing the musical gifts of individuals and groups in the congregation. She has taught organ and harpsichord and has served as university organist at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 2004. She is a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians and holds the associateship certificate of the American Guild of Organists (AAGO).
Bacon taught general music, organ, college entrance music theory, and treble chorus as the assistant director at Hagoromogakuen Junior/Senior High School in Osaka, Japan, where she also led choir tours to China, Poland, Australia, Lithuania, Switzerland and Austria. She has given solo and duo organ recitals in many cities in Japan and the United States.
Her awards include the CPH scholarship, the Eva V. Stroud Christensen Scholarship and a graduate teaching assistantship at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
She has studied organ with Naoko Sano, Sr. Mary Hueller, John Behnke, Marilyn Stulken, George Ritchie and Quentin Faulkner.
She resides in Lincoln with her husband, Boyd, and son, Bennett.