Azusa Onishi, violin

Azusa Onishi was born in Kanagawa, Japan. She moved to Italy after graduating from Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2008.

In Italy, she graduated summa cum laude from F. Morlacchi Conservatory of Perugia in 2011. She continued her study at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome and graduated with the highest honors from the academy in 2014.
In 2007, she won the highest prize at the 17th Japan Classical Music Competition.
In 2009, she won the Luigi Castellani Award in Perugia.
In 2010, she won the 1st prize at the Riviera Etrusca Competition in Italy.
In 2011, her piano trio “Trio Les Amis” won the 1st prize at the trio/quartet section of the Giulio Rospigliosi Competition.
In 2012, “Trio Les Amis” won 1st prize at the chamber music section of the Padova International Competition.
In 2013, “Trio Les Amis” won 2nd prize at the Premio Guido Papini International Chamber Music Competition and was granted the scholarship for the chamber music course at the Fiesole Conservatory.

She has also regularly played at the concerts of the string orchestra “I Solisti di Perugia” in Italy and some other countries. In 2011, they had a concert with the attendance of Emperor and Empress of Japan at Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy and Festival.
She is currently playing at the concerts of the chamber orchestra “Orchestra da Camera di Perugia” and “I Solisti Aquilani” as well as her solo concerts and chamber music concerts over Italy and other countries in Europe.

In her career, she has studied the violin with Yoshiko Nakura, Yuko Kageyama, Paolo Franceschini, Christiano Rossi, Sonig Tchakerian, and Marco Fiorini. She has also studied chamber music with Hamao Fujiwara, Hideki Kitamoto, Francesco Pepicelli, and Trio di Parma.