Kaori Wilson 熊谷佳織

Kaori Wilson has been Assistant Principal Viola with the Hong Kong Philharmonic since joining the orchestra in 1996. Born in Yokohama, Japan, her introduction to classical music began on the violin at the age of four. A decade later, she started playing in a chamber music group, and chose the viola as her instrument. Her studies have taken her to Toho Gakuen School of Music, working with Nobuo Okada, to the Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University in Brisbane, where she studied with John Curro on full scholarship, and finally to Hong Kong where she had a two-year full scholarship at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, studying with Barry Wilde.

Festival performances have included the 1991 Nagano Aspen Music Festival, where she was Principal Viola, and the 1995 Pacific Music Festival, both held in Japan.

Kaori lives in Hong Kong with her husband and two children, Kohana and Kenzo.

熊谷佳織於1996年加入香港管弦樂團，擔任中提琴助理首席。生於日本橫濱，四歲開始習小提琴，從而接觸到古典音樂。十年後，她加入室樂團，負責演奏中提琴，並決定選擇中提琴為自己的樂器。

熊谷佳織曾在多地學習音樂。初在桐朋學院大學隨岡田信夫學藝，後憑全費獎學金入讀澳洲布里斯本的昆士蘭音樂學院，就學於柯路門下。最後考獲香港演藝學院兩年全費獎學金，來港跟隨懷特學習。

她曾在多個音樂節上獻藝，其中包括兩次的日本演出，繼於1991年的長野亞斯本音樂節擔任首席中提琴，又於1995年的太平洋音樂節演出。

熊谷佳織現與丈夫及兩名兒女Kohana和Kenzo居於香港。