Chihiro ONO
Education
Royal College of Music - Master of Music in Advanced Performance (Distinction)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Postgraduate Artist Diploma on AIS (Advanced Instrumental Studies - Intensive course for Soloists)
Toho Gakuen School of Music - B.Mus (Hons)
Mentor, Influenced by and Interested in…
Brassai (photographer), Zaha Hadid (architect), Andras Keller (violinist), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (choreographer), Kenji Kobayashi (violinist),
Fumio Koizumi (ethnomusicologist), Saul Leiter (photographer),
Crystal Pite (choreographer), Ferenc Rados (pianist), Sophie Tauber-Arp (artist), Jean Tinguely (painter and sculptor)
Physics (e.g. quantum), Sciences (e.g. brain, social, geo/politics), Philosophy (e.g. Tao, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer), Arts (e.g. architect, design, antiques, choreography, cinematography, photography), Traditions (e.g. mythology, methodology, folkloric, techniques, skills), Music (e.g. classical music, contemporary / new music, Noh, Gagaku, Gamelan, Kecak, Folk songs/chant, Flamenco, Jazz, Improvisation), Sounds (e.g. Field recording, Sonic memories, everyday life sounds),
Stillness, Silence and Ma
Hobby
Hiking in mountains, Making/Drawing, Reading, Searching, Studying, Taking Photographs (instant film and mobile), and floating in Silence and Nature
Own Project
"SOLO in Bar, Tokyo" series 2000 - 2019
(lecture recital series with violin alone)
"SOLO in London Churches" series 2003 - 2017
(solo recital series with violin/viola)
"Mad Tea Party" series since 2017 - 2020
(lecture recital on art/history of music, with violin alone)
Workshop, Produce and Create since 2012
(for performer, composer, curious people etc)
...etc...
Broadcasted on
BBC Radio3, Resonance FM (UK)
Bartok Radio (Hungary)
SWR (Germany)
NHK (Japan)
...etc...
Perform/ed, Work/ed at/with
as Soloist, Chamber musician, Leader, Co-leader, Section-Leader, Tutti, SoundArtist
ARCO: New/Experimental music/theatre group (London)
Apartment House: Contemporary/New/Experimental music group (London)
Anjali: Dance group (U.K)
Bittersuites: Dance group (London/N.Y.)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (U.K.)
CHROMA: Baroque/Classical/Contemporary music ensemble (London)
Cohen Ensemble: Classical chamber ensemble (London)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (U.K.)
Ensemble Modern: Contemporary music ensemble (Germany)
Forced Entertainment: Experimental theatre (U.K.)
hr-sinfonieorchester: Symphony orchestra (Germany)
London Mozart Players: Classical music chamber orchestra (London)
Les Jardins Musicaux: Classical music symphony orchestra (Schweiz)
Ligeti String Quartet: String quartet (London)
Musicity: Sound art (London)
Musique Des Lumieres: Baroque music ensemble (Suisse)
Ossian: Contemporary music group (London)
Opera Project: Opera Production company (UK)
Phaedra: Contemporary music ensemble (London)
Riot Ensemble: Contemporary music group (London)
Royal Opera House: Ensemble project and Young composer scheme (London)
Saito-Kinen Orchestra: Symphony orchestra and chamber music (Japan)
Squib-Box: Artist collectives on Experimental music (London)
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (Japan)
...etc
Venue
Barbican Hall, Kings Place, South Bank Centre halls, Wigmore Hall,
Royal Albert Hall, Westminster Abbey,
Cafe OTO, Iklectic, Tate Britain, Royal Academy of Arts,
National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Schoenberg Centre (Wien)
Frankfurt Alte Oper, Oper Frankfurt,
Philharmonic Essen, Philharmonie Koln, Berlin Philharmonie (Germany)
Teatro Coliseo (Buenos Aires)
Suntory Hall, Oji Hall, Takemitsu Hall, TokyoMetoropoitanTheatre (Tokyo)
...etc..
Aldeburgh Festival, Block Universe, KammerKlang, nonclassical,
Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Tete a Tete, Women of the World (UK)
Jardins Musicaux (CH)
Salzburg Festival, Wiener Festwochen (AT)
Sacrum+profanum (PL)
Donauenschinger Musiktag, cresc..., Darmstadt, ECLAT
E.v.Siemens Musikstiftung (DE)
Festival d'Autumne a Paris (FR)
...etc...