Fumino Ando, violin

Violinist Fumino Ando joined the Oregon Symphony in 2002. She was born in Japan and began to study violin at the age of four. Fumino has studied with Namiko Umezu, Koichiro Harada at Toho Gakuen University of Music in Tokyo, Eduard Schmieder at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and Felicia Moye at Oklahoma University in Norman, Okla.

In 1992, she became a member of the Bettina String Quartet, which actively performs throughout Japan and performed in the Santa Fe and La Jolla chamber music festivals. Fumino received a fellowship at the Tanglewood music festival and was given a chamber music “Diploma Honor Prize” at the Chigiana Music Academy in Italy.

In the Netherlands, she was a winner of Donemus Performance Prize for performing Dutch contemporary music, and she had a concert in the Concertgebouw Hall, Amsterdam. In the United States, she was invited to the International Laureates chamber music festival in Los Angeles and performed with young talented artists from the United States and Europe.

After completing her studies in the Artist Certificate Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, she joined the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami. She performed on that orchestra’s San Francisco tour with the artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas, and had chamber music performances in Miami, Boston and Los Angeles.

While studying for her Masters of Music at the University of Oklahoma, she was selected as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra in the season of 2001 and 2002. She also joined the Crouse String Quartet.

As a soloist, she was invited as the guest artist for the classic series of the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra in Arkansas.

Fumino often performs her violin with Sakura-Koto Ensemble (traditional Japanese instrument) in Portland. She practices Ashtanga Yoga daily to seek human’s core energy and freedom from uplift and flow.