Anna Ono

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Born April 4, 1942 in Shenyang, Manchuria—like another Japanese musician and lifelong friend Seiji Ozawa, Ushioda was the daughter of a cosmopolitan family. Her father was an architect and her mother a folkloric dancer and choregrapher. Western music was a constant in her family and so it was natural that she should study violin. She was a pupil of Anna Ono, who was a student of the great pedagogue Leopold Auer (teacher of Elman, Heifetz, Milstein, Zimbalist). She attended the Toho Gakuen School and played in the orchestra conducted by Hideo Saito, Ozawa’s conducting teacher and a musical guru revered by a whole generation of instrumentalists. At age 18, she left home to study in Leningrad and followed that with six years in Switzerland.


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