Anna Hashimoto ARAM has a career encompassing appearances as a soloist and orchestral musician alongside a commitment to education.
After winning the Young Clarinettists Competition in Tokyo in 2003, she made her London concerto debut at the age of fifteen with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, and went on to win international clarinet competitions in Carlino, Italy, and Kortrijk, Belgium. Her solo career took her to major venues across Europe and Japan, performing concertos with orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic, Filharmonie Hradec Kralove in the renowned Dvořák Hall in Prague, Japan Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, and Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. She released three solo CD albums which all received high praise, and is a founding member of the Atéa Quintet.
Anna has appeared as guest principal clarinet with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Japan Chamber Orchestra, and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. She is a clarinet tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, senior orchestral tutor and chamber music coach at the Royal College of Music’s Junior Department, and regularly gives masterclasses, adjudicates competitions, and tutors on summer schools in the UK including tutoring for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Anna is represented by Nippon Artist Management Inc. and is a Vandoren-UK artist.
