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Second-prize winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Competition and winner

of Astral Artistic Services' 2003 National Auditions, violinist Ayano Ninomiya

has appeared extensively as soloist with orchestras across the U.S. Astral

presented her on a "Rising Stars" concert at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for

the Performing Arts and featured her with other Astral artists at Carnegie Hall's

Weill Recital Hall. She also led The Haddonfield Symphony Chamber Orchestra

in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and gave her Philadelphia recital debut, both

under Astral's auspices. Astral also recently presented her in a performance of

piano trios, with Astral cellist Clancy Newman and renowned pianist Claude

Frank.

Ms. Ninomiya made her Boston Pops debut under Keith Lockhart, and has

been featured with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harrisburg and

Dubuque symphonies, the Mobile and Gulf Port orchestras, the Civic

Symphony of Boston, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Port City (Alabama)

Symphony. She is the recent recipient of an S&R Washington Award and the

2003 Lili Boulanger Award. As a recipient of a 2005 Frank Huntington Beebe

Fellowship, she spent the 2005-2006 season in Budapest researching the

Bartók Archives and studying at the Franz Liszt Academy.

An active recitalist, Ms. Ninomiya recently gave her highly acclaimed New York

recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall under the auspices of the

Naumburg Foundation. She has appeared on the "Young Artist Showcase" at

Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, at the Rockport Chamber Music

Festival, on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and on

BankBoston's "Emerging Artist" Series. She gave her Ravinia Festival recital

debut on its "Rising Stars" series, was presented in recital in Sofia, Bulgaria,

and toured Japan as part of the JAL Classic Special New Artist Series. Ms.

Ninomiya recently gave a radio-broadcast recital and concerto performance in

Budapest, a recital at Sanibel Florida's Big Arts festival, and appeared at the

Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove Festival. She recorded the complete

works for violin by Larry Bell; Philadelphia's City Paper placed the CD on its list

of "Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2003."

Also an avid chamber musician, Ms. Ninomiya performs regularly at the

Marlboro, Caramoor, Rockport, and Strings in the Mountains chamber music

festivals. She toured with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, "Musicians

from Marlboro," for New York City's WQXR radio, and as a member of the

Ravinia Festival's "Young Artists from the Steans Institute" series. As a

founding member and first violinist of the Amaryllis String Quartet she won First

Prize at the 1995 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in the Junior Division;

she has since appeared with the Quartet at the Kennedy Center's National

Festival of the Arts, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Martha's Vineyard

Festival, among others. The Amaryllis Quartet has collaborated with violinist

Pamela Frank and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Ayano Ninomiya received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School,

where she studied with Robert Mann, and holds joint degrees in Music and

French from Harvard College. Her principal teachers included Michèle Auclair,

Marylou Churchill, Miriam Fried, Hyo Kang, and Eszter Perenyi. Born in

Takamatsu, Japan, she moved the U.S. when she was one year old and began

violin studies at the age of seven. The following year she entered the New

England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School and made her professional

debut with the North Shore (MA) Symphony.