Arisa Onoda has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, 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, and Aspen Music Festival.
As a soloist, she appeared with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Polish Silesia Orchestra, and Torun Symphony Orchestra during the 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 the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Elton, and in 2021, she completed an Advanced Diploma with the Helen Eames Prize and the Andrew S Sykes Award. Arisa has been mentored by Pascal Roge since age 13, and has also received extensive tuition from eminent artists such as Dame Imogen Cooper, Richard Goode, Steven Osborne, and Rafal Blechacz. In 2022, she moved to Boston and is currently pursuing her studies with Professor Dang Thai Son at New England Conservatory.
From a young age, Arisa won First prizes at the Chang Jiang Cup International Music Competition, the All Japan Classic Music Competition, the PTNA Piano Competition, and the Chopin International Piano Competition in Asia. 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 (2020). Most recently, she won the Ita Stephen Beethoven Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition (2022). 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, Rohm Music Foundation, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan.