​Chihiro Ono

Born in Chiba/Japan, Chihiro Ono is a London based Japanese violinist, also plays viola. Specialising in Music, such as baroque, classical, contemporary, new, experimental music, and folkloric, noise, improvisation, field recording and art of sounds.

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She has been performing on stage and broadcasted on media as a chamber musician at major festival and venues, working with various type of esteemed ensembles and composers such as Apartment House, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CHROMA, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, London Mozart Players, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, G.Aperghis, F.Cerha, P.Eötvös, B.Ferneyhough, H.Lachemann, S.Reich and more.

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​As a stringed-instruments player, she has been giving workshops for young composers at institutions, such as Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Goldsmith University of London, Royal Holloway University of London, London Symphony Orchestra Composer Scheme, King"s College London (UK), Rice University (USA) and Tokyo College of Music (JP). 

 

Since 2018, alongside of stage-performing in Performing arts, Chihiro intensified her appearance as a sound artist through some commissioned pieces, collaborating and producing for live-performance, radio, film and theatre with various like-minded artists, such as ARCO, Forced Entertainment, Waste Paper Opera, Resonance FM and Oedipa (UK). 

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In 2024, she has been selected to be one of Sound and Music's In Motion Composers in London, UK. 

 

Her creative work draws on influences from a rich variety of repertoires, encompassing folklore, field recording, improvisation, Western and Eastern's traditional musical/theatrical methods, elements, techniques and philosophies, with her own extremely strong visions on sounds.