Mezzo-Soprano Chihiro Asano from Tokyo, Japan, graduated with her Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from NEC in 2022. Her staged performances include opera, chamber works, and contemporary experimental music. Most recently, Chihiro was seen playing Ms.Gross in Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the screw and  Hiroko Watanabe in  Jack Perla's An American Dream. Other leading opera roles include Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Dame3 in The Magic Flute, and Whitch2 in Dido and Aeneas. In addition to performance, Chihiro is also passionate about teaching and voice science. In August 2021, she presented her research on the Japanese female voice in Anime at the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Conference.