Chihiro Ono
@ Sabrina Dallot-Seguro
I began my musical journey at the age of 8 months with copying violin playing with two chopsticks before I could even walk/talk.
At the age of 9, I wrote "I want to master Music". I chose especially music and violin as a tool for exploring human, space, time and sounds.
As my first name Chihiro's " 智尋 " meaning is "searching for wisdom", I am on that journey since.
Born in Chiba / Japan, based in London / U.K since 2000, a Japanese classical trained violinist and violist in Performing Arts. Specialised in Music, such as baroque, classical, contemporary, new, experimental music, and folklore, field recording, improvisation and theatre.
As a professional violinist and violinist, a chamber musician, leader and soloist, she has been performing worldwide on stages, festivals and medias with various esteemed groups including Apartment House, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CHROMA, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, London Mozart Players and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and composers Georges Aperghis, Peter Ablinger, Friedrich Cerha, Shasha Chen, Bushra El-Truk, Péter Eötvös, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Brigitta Muntendorf, Steve Reich, Aida Shirazi, Du Yun and more.
Also she has been giving / given workshop 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’s Composer Scheme, King’s College London (UK), Rice University (USA) and Tokyo College of Music (JP).
Since 2013, alongside of being a professional violinist and violist in the classical music performing arts, Chihiro intensified her appearance as an sound artist through 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 RFM Extra, and Oedipa (UK).
In 2024, she was selected artist for Sound and Music’s In Motion 2024/25 composers. Her creative sound art work from 2018 is merging the wide range of knowledges, styles. influences and sounds, such as rich repertoires on classical music (9c to 2025), field recording, improvisation, worldwide Folklores’ music, traditional theatrical movements and methods, and philosophy, science, physics with her own extremely strong vision on sounds and music.
She plays J.B.Guadagnini 1766 (violin), A.Guastalla 1920 (viola) and J.Pawlikowski 2008 (baroque violin).