Hitomi Honda is a pianist and instructor based in New York City. She explores diverse forms of musical expression through her piano playing, including classical solo performance, improvisation, and accompaniment.
Her piano career as a pianist began in 2013 after graduating from Brooklyn College.
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 Honda holds a BFA in Classical Piano from the City College of New York, where she studied under Alison Deane and was awarded the Josephine & Lester M. Gershen Music Scholarship. She later earned an M.Mus in Piano Performance from Brooklyn College, CUNY, studying under Adam Kent. Her dedication to pushing the boundaries of piano performance has established her as a skilled and respected artist in the contemporary music world.