News
Welcome to the website of internationally acclaimed clarinettist Anna Hashimoto. Already leading a strong career both in Britain and Japan Anna is one of the foremost emerging young clarinettists of recent years.
News - Anna is featured in the latest issue of Classical Music magazine.
Biography
Anna Hashimoto made her Barbican Hall debut in December 2004 at the age of fifteen, playing Weber’s Concertino with the English Chamber Orchestra. She has since been invited regularly as a soloist with the orchestra, most recently under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy. She won the Japan Clarinet Society’s ‘Young Clarinettists Competition’ where she was also awarded all three special prizes, and the following year was a prizewinner and the youngest competitor of the Japan Clarinet Competition. [full biography]