Arisa
Onoda

Born in Japan, Arisa began playing the piano at the age of 2 and the violin at 6. After studying at the Juilliard School under Choong Mo Kang, she moved to London and earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Elton, and, in 2021, completed an Advanced Diploma. In 2022, she moved to Boston and is currently pursuing further studies under professor Dang Thai Son at the New England Conservatory.

Arisa has performed in more than a dozen major international competitions such as the 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 1^st prize and the Best Chopin award at the International Juliusz Zarebski Music Competition in 2020. Most recently, she won the Ita Stephen Beethoven Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 2022.

Arisa is 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.