BIOGRAPHY
Born in Japan, Ms. Isono received a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University, Bloomington and a Master of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Her piano instructors include Mack McCray, Paul Harsh, Eckert Selheim, Boaz Sharon, Shigeo Neriki, and Hiroshi Tajika. She has received awards and scholarships from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, AIMS Music Festival in Austria, Piano Master Class in the Czech Republic, and Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival in Minnesota.
Ms. Isono has worked and performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Ballet, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She was also piano faculty at San Domenico School in San Anselmo.
As a collaborative artist, she has performed with principal musicians of the New York Philharmonic, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Symphony, the Cleveland Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet, the Oregon Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, and the New Zealand National Symphony.
In 2001, Ms. Isono lost her sight to a rare retinal disorder.
She gives private piano and Braille music lessons to sighted and visually impaired children and adults. Ms. Isono is a member of the Music Education Network for the Visually Impaired (MENVI) and the Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC).
EDUCATION
MM in piano performance
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