Aoi Hara & Takashi Harada

Violin : Aoi Hara

Aoi Hara has performed as a soloist in her recitals and collaborated with various musicians. She held recitals in 2015 - 2019 and 2022. In addition, as a designer and curator, she has organized her concerts collaborated with the artists for paintings, photos, installations and champagne. She also has performed chamber music as a violist in the piano quintet. The concert has been held every year from 2012. Their repertoires are from classical to contemporary. She worked as an orchestra player at the Senzoku Music University from 2012 to 2014. Aoi Hara studied the violin with Masumi Yamamoto and Masanori Arai at Tokyo Gakugei University after a student of Noboru Kawakami and Noriko Kozai. She participated master classes under Olivier Charlier in Kyoto and Nice, Christian Altenburger, Tanja Becker-Bender, Sebastian Schmidt, Auryn Quartet and Fine Arts Quartet in Hamburg.

Piano : Takashi Harada

Takashi Harada was born in Tokyo and studied a piano with Kouko Iioka since his childhood. After graduating from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he studied with Haruhi Hata for a year. Then, he entered Tokyo Gakugei University where he studied a piano with Fumio Ishibashi, and got a master’s degree of music education. While in university, he attended masterclasses with Henri Barda, Anne Queffélec, Klaus Schilde, and Rolf Plagge. And he also started his career as an accompanist with a clarinet player, Masatoshi Tanaka. After graduating, he held recitals in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Also he performed with a number of musicians. Currently he works as a pianist, a piano teacher, and a lecturer in Yakumo Academy and Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts.