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)
Broadcasted on
BBC Radio3, Resonance FM (UK)
Bartok Radio (Hungary)
SWR (Germany)
NHK (Japan)
...etc...
Mentor, Influenced by and Interested in…
Kenji Kobayashi (violinist), Andras Keller (violinist), Ferenc Rados (pianist),
Fumio Koizumi (ethnomusicologist)
Physics (e.g. quantum), Sciences (e.g. brain, social, geo/politics), Philosophy (e.g. Tao, Nietzsche), Arts (e.g. architect, design, antiques, choreography, cinematography, photography), Traditions (e.g. mythology, methodology, folkloric, techniques, skills),
Music (e.g. Noh, Gagaku, Gamelan, Kecak, Folk songs/chant, Flamenco, Jazz, Improvisation, Field recording, Sonic memories, Sounds), Stillness, Silence and Ma
Hobby
Making/Drawing, Reading, Searching, Studying, Taking Photographs (by my mobile only, see Insta!), Being in Silence and Ma, Nature and Hiking Mountains
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
(lecture recital on art/history of music, with violin alone)
Workshop, Produce and Create since 2012
(musical performances/activities in outside/inside)
...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...
Perform/ed, Work/ed at/with
as a Soloist, Leader, Co-Leader, Section Leader, Tutti, SoundArtist
ARCO: New/Experimental music/theatre group (London)
Apartment House: Contemporary/New/Experimental music ensemble (London)
Anjali: Dance (U.K)
Bittersuites: Dance group (London/N.Y.)
CHROMA: Baroque/Classical/Contemporary music ensemble (London)
Cohen Ensemble: Classical chamber ensemble (London)
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 for Young composer/artist scheme (London)
Squib-Box: Artist collectives on Experimental music (London)
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra: Classical music Symphony orchestra (Japan)
...etc