Mezzo-Soprano Chihiro Asano is from Tokyo, Japan. 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. She is a very versatile vocal coach and teach musical theater, jazz, pop, and classical vocal. In August 2021, she presented her research on the Japanese female voice in Anime at the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Conference.