About me
Adele Ohki is an accomplished violinist with a broad and diverse musical career. After spending 25 years in the United States, she has recently returned to Australia. Born and raised in Canberra, Adele grew up in a musically enriched environment, beginning her violin studies at the Canberra School of Music with Vincent Edwards.
Throughout her childhood, Adele earned numerous scholarships and awards, leading her to further her studies in the United States under Charles Castleman at the Eastman School of Music. She holds master’s degrees in both modern and baroque violin performance from Northwestern University and Boston University. As a soloist, she has performed in masterclasses and concerts at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, working closely with Alice Waten, James Buswell and Wanda Wilkomirska. Adele has developed a successful freelance career, performing with prestigious ensembles in Australia and worldwide, including the Boston Opera and Ballet orchestras, the Portland Symphony, and the Vermont Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra and Goteborg Opera orchestras in Sweden, and more recently in the Australian Opera, Australian Haydn orchestra and Omega Ensemble.
Adele is deeply committed to music education and has worked as a visiting artist and mentor at the El Sistema program at the Boston Conservatory Lab Charter School, and as an adjudicator for the Sydney, Cranbrook, Barker and Ryde Eisteddfods.
