Aska Kaneko
Aska Kaneko (金子飛鳥) was born in 1959 in Suginami, Japan, and began classical
violin and piano lessons at age four. She won a young musicians’ quartet
competition in London in 1974 and went on to study at Tokyo University of the
Arts, performing with Kenji Sawada while still a student. In 1984 she founded
the string orchestra Aska Strings, and three years later she co-founded the band
Adi, with which she recorded four albums through 1994. The 1990s saw her turn
toward traditional Asian music and the founding of the Asian Fantasy Orchestra,
followed in 1995 by the Voice Project with...
