About the artist
the italian flutist fulfills classical music wishes
Hanami Sakurai from Japan began her musical education with piano and horn. She had her first oboe lesson at the age of 15. She studied oboe and chamber music with Yoshiaki Obata and Atsuko Matsuyama Schmalfuß at the Aichi University of Art and Music and the Tokyo National University of Art and Music, graduating with distinction.
As a Yamaha scholarship holder, she went on to study oboe with Prof Günther Passin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she also graduated with distinction.
She attended master classes with Christoph Hartmann, Kai Rapsch and Klaus Becker.
Hanami Sakurai has gained a wealth of professional experience in the orchestral field, winning auditions for temporary contracts with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonie, where she is still a welcome substitute.
She has also played in the Salzburg Philharmonic, as a substitute in the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, in the Camerata Salzburg, with the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists, in the Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg under the direction of Tabea Zimmermann and as principal oboist in the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
She is currently studying for a Master's degree in baroque oboe with Alfredo Bernardini at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
