Arisa Onoda

Arisa Onoda has performed extensively throughout Europe, USA, the Middle East and Asia in major concert halls and festivals including Wigmore hall, Royal Festival Hall, Steinway Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Frost Chopin Festival, Aspen Music Festival. As a soloist she appeared with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Polish Silesia Orchestra, Torun Symphony Orchestra during a past few seasons, and also performed chamber music with amazing musicians such as Panocha Quartet, Nash Ensemble and Escher Quartet.

Born in Japan, Arisa Onoda began playing the piano at the age of two and the violin at six. After studying at the Juilliard School under Choong Mo Kang, she moved to London and earned a Bachelor’s Degree, a Master’s Degree at Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Elton, and in 2021, she completed an Advanced Diploma. In 2022, she moved to Boston and currently she is pursuing her study with Prof. Dang Thai Son at New England Conservatory.

She has performed and received diplomas in more than a dozen competitions including major international competitions such as Geneva competition in 2014, Chopin competition in 2015 in Warsaw, Busoni competition in 2017, and New Orleans competition in 2018. She became a medalist and a Gorodnitzki memorial prize winner at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2019, and was awarded the First prize and the Best Chopin award at the International Juliusz Zarebski Music Competition in 2020, and most recently, she won the Beethoven Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 2022, and she was the Semi-Finalist at the Montreal International Music Competition.

Arisa was selected as a 2017 CHANEL Pygmalion Days Artist.

She is proud to have been supported by Philharmonia Orchestra/the Martin Music Scholarship Fund, Help Musicians UK, Hattori Foundation, and Rohm Music Foundation and the agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan.