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4才よりVn & Pf、ソルフェージュを学ぶ。幼少期は自閉症と診断されていたが、Violinを弾くことで社会との接点ができた。抽象画家である母のスケッチ旅行に同行、自然の中で思うままヴァイオリンを弾いて育ったことが、自由で大自然のうねりを表現するような演奏スタイルに影響している。10-15歳ジュニアオーケストラに在籍。ロンドンの青少年音楽祭にて弦楽カルテットコンクール最優秀賞受賞。また、この時に観客から次々抱きしめられ感謝の言葉を述べられたことにより、音楽が人との間にあるものであると確信し感動し、自らの使命に目覚めた。
東京芸術大学でクラシックを学ぶ傍ら自己の音楽を追求。
「Aska Strings」を主宰し、オリジナルライブ活動と共に、ロックポップスジャズ、映画音楽など、(佐野元春、大貫妙子、加藤登紀子、松たか子、福山雅治、山下洋輔、宮崎アニメ 他)数えきれない録音やコンサートツアーに参加。
10年間の国際交流基金主宰パンアジアンプロジェクトAsian Fantasy音楽監督を歴任。
飛鳥Acoustic Unitにてアジアアフリカ公演、日韓音楽祭、NYの振り付け家Yoshiko Chuma主宰Unfinished Symphony にてパレスティナを含む中東&アメリカ公演（担当した音楽でBessies Music Award受賞）、Asian Fantasyアジアツアー、渡辺香津美中国公演、坂田明モンゴル公演、ナターシャグジーキエフ公演、ジェーン・バーキン震災支援アジアアメリカツアー、Gaia Cuatroヨーロッパツアー等50カ国以上の海外公演を行う。
また、「カリギュラ（菅田将暉主演／栗山民也演出）」「イリアス（内野聖陽主演／栗山民也演出）」「ブッダ（高嶋政伸主演／栗山民也演出）」など演劇音楽多数。サントリー天然水、伊藤園などのCM音楽多数、ゲームFinal Fantasyシリーズの編曲など、活発な作編曲活動。谷川俊太郎や渡辺えり、柴田元幸など主に作家を招いての東北震災支援「本つながる未来」シリーズ企画等。
最近は、居住地アメリカSt Louisでの多彩なライブと日本文化を広める活動、20年継続中の多国籍グループGaia Cuatroヨーロッパ＆日本ツアー、イタリアの継続ユニットMichele Fazio World Trio, Luz Trio。
日本では林正樹（Pf） 北村聡（Bandoneon）、吉田篤貴（Vn, Val）等との継続duo活動、井上鑑＆ナターシャグジーとの15年継続 No Nukes Gig実行委員、アンビエントDuo “A-Un”、ハルカストリングス、狭間美帆m-unit、井上鑑、山木秀夫とのE.Violin trio RHM、弦楽器即興ワークショップ、音楽家のための整体ワークショップなど。
2024年7月にはマリアシュナイダー特別オーケストラ（東京芸術劇場）のコンミスを務め大好評を博した。
これまでに41枚のCD発売。
最新CD: “Infinity” Michele Fazio World Trio - Italy
“風の中の夢” ハルカストリングス Japan
2025初旬発売予定 Sound＆Breath音と呼吸（Duo w北村聡） Japan
趣味はガーデニング家庭菜園、裏千家茶道、白川古神道おみち、言霊学、イトオテルミー温灸療法、武當太極拳、身体と意識のチューニングメンテナンスを学び続けている。 Began studying violin, piano, and solfege at the age of 4. Diagnosed with autism in her childhood, she found a connection with society through playing the violin. Accompanying her abstract painter mother on sketching trips, she grew up playing the violin freely in nature, which influenced her free-spirited and expressive performance style, reminiscent of the great swells of nature. She was a member of a junior orchestra from ages 10 to 15. She won the top prize in a string quartet competition at a youth music festival in London. At that time, she was deeply moved and convinced that music exists between people when she was hugged one after another by the audience and received words of gratitude, awakening her to her own mission.
While studying classical music at Tokyo University of the Arts, she pursued her own music.
She presides over "Aska Strings" and, along with her original live activities, has participated in countless recordings and concert tours in rock, pop, jazz, film music, and more (with artists such as Motoharu Sano, Taeko Onuki, Tokiko Kato, Takako Matsu, Masaharu Fukuyama, Yosuke Yamashita, and in Miyazaki anime).
She served as the music director for the Japan Foundation's Pan-Asian project, Asian Fantasy, for 10 years.
She has performed in over 50 countries, including Asia and Africa with the Aska Acoustic Unit, the Japan-Korea Music Festival, the Middle East and the US (including Palestine) with Yoshiko Chuma's Unfinished Symphony (for which she won a Bessies Music Award for her music), the Asian Fantasy Asia Tour, Kazumi Watanabe's China tour, Akira Sakata's Mongolia tour, Natasha Gudzy's Kiev tour, Jane Birkin's earthquake relief Asia-America tour, and Gaia Cuatro's Europe tour.
She has also composed music for numerous plays, including "Caligula" (starring Masaki Suda, directed by Tamiya Kuriyama), "Iliad" (starring Seiyo Uchino, directed by Tamiya Kuriyama), and "Buddha" (starring Masanobu Takashima, directed by Tamiya Kuriyama). She is also active in composing and arranging, with numerous commercial songs for Suntory Natural Water, Ito En, and others, as well as arrangements for the Final Fantasy game series. She has also planned the Tohoku earthquake relief series "Hon Tsunagaru Mirai" (The Future Connected by Books), inviting authors such as Shuntaro Tanikawa, Eri Watanabe, and Motoyuki Shibata.
Recently, she has been active in a variety of live performances and promoting Japanese culture in her place of residence, St. Louis, USA, as well as on European and Japanese tours with the multinational group Gaia Cuatro, which has been active for 20 years, and with the ongoing Italian units Michele Fazio World Trio and Luz Trio.
In Japan, she is active in ongoing duo activities with Masaki Hayashi (Pf), Satoshi Kitamura (Bandoneon), Atsuki Yoshida (Vn, Val), and others, is a 15-year member of the No Nukes Gig executive committee with Akira Inoue and Natasha Gudzy, is in the ambient duo "A-Un," Haruka Strings, Miho Hazama's m-unit, the E.Violin trio RHM with Akira Inoue and Hideo Yamaki, and holds string instrument improvisation workshops and bodywork workshops for musicians.
In July 2024, she served as the concertmistress for the Maria Schneider Special Orchestra (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre) to great acclaim.
She has released 41 CDs to date.
Latest CDs: “Infinity” Michele Fazio World Trio - Italy
“Kaze no Naka no Yume” Haruka Strings Japan
Scheduled for release in early 2025: Sound & Breath (Duo w/ Satoshi Kitamura) Japan
Her hobbies include gardening, home gardening, Urasenke tea ceremony, Shirakawa Koshinto Omichi, Kotodama studies, Ito Thermie moxibustion therapy, Wudang Tai Chi, and she continues to study body and consciousness tuning and maintenance.