Instrument: Cello
Originally from: Okaya, Japan
Now reside in: Houston, TX
Birthday: November 29
How did you get started? I started playing cello when I was 5 years old because both of my older brothers were already playing the cello. My oldest brother still plays with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Yokohama Japan.
What do you do when you’re not playing with ROCO? I perform in Houston and Japan and travel back to play there at least once or twice a year.
What are you listening to on your iPod? Arcanto String Quartet; Chet Baker Sings; anything João Gilberto.
Personal info: Married.
Interests outside music: Cooking, eating out, shopping, traveling, and spending time with my family!
Education: I attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo Japan where I received my bachelor’s degree; Southern Methodist University where I received an Artist Certificate and the University of Houston Moores School of Music where I received my Masters degree.
Bio: Born in Okaya Japan, Shino Hayashi began studying cello at the age of 5. She holds degrees from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston and an Artist Certificate from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Her principal teachers have included Keiko Matsunami, Ko Iwasaki, Christopher Adkins and Vagram Saradjian. She has preformed with Symphony orchestras throughout Japan and the United States including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and the Houston Grand Opera.
An avid chamber musician, Hayashi was a prize winner in the Ninth Annual Japan Chamber Music Competition and a recipient of the Ishikawa Music Academy Award. She regularly appears throughout Japan with acclaimed blind violinist Takayoshi Wanami and is a teaching assistant at his summer seminars for violin and chamber music. In Houston she has also been a guest on faculty recitals at the Moores School of Music, the Texas Music Festival and with the KUHF Chamber Ensemble at the Menil Collection Museum.