Hitomi Honda is a pianist and improvisor based in New York City, where she focuses on contemporary music and creating new sounds for the future.
Her career as a contemporary pianist began in 2013 when she was commissioned by electroacoustic music composer, audio engineer, noise bassist, and multimedia performer Akio Mokuno to perform his first piano solo piece, Mullaly Park 09/10. Since then, she has premiered new pieces by Mokuno and other composers.
Her performance of Four More composed in 1956 by Earle Brown (1926-2002) at the Make Music New York 2016 was reviewed by the music critic Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times. He wrote “I especially enjoyed … and Earle Brown’s complex pointillist “Four More,” a solo work was incisively played by Ms. Honda.”
Hitomi holds a BFA in Classical Piano from the City College of New York and an M.MUS in Piano Performance from Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she studied under Alison Deane and Adam Kent. Her commitment to pushing the boundaries of piano performance has earned her recognition as a skilled and respected performer in the contemporary music world.
Hitomi is currently working on completing the BCD project. In addition to that, she has also started her own piano improvisation project to explore various tones on the piano. The project is called “Tone Experiment.”