Ashiya Musicians’Academic Club Corporation

AMAC was founded in 1991 by Hitomi Ono for the Japanese musicians who would like to study and work on the music and their play further in the academic and healthy way.


AMAC offers the following Lessons, Courses, and Workshops for Performers, especially for Musicians,

Lesson (private, by Hitomi Ono)

♯ The Alexander Technique

• 30 minutes
• 60 minutes ( the Alexander Technique + Musical Activity)
• Concentrated ( 30minutes/day ×3days within a week)

Course ( group,by Hitomi Ono)

♯ The 6 hour- course of " What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body” by Andover Educators

• 2days course ( 3 hours /day × 2 day in small group)
• 2days course with the AT lesson ( 3 hours /day × 2 days in a small group + one 30minutes

private lesson of the Alexander Technique in 2 days)

Workshop ( group)

Master Teachers give the intensive class for Instruments or Voice. During the workshop students have the opportunity of taking the group or private lesson of the Alexander Technique by Hitomi Ono
Master Teachers: Dido Keuning (Piano), Junzo Hosokawa (Flute), Risako Hayakawa(Harp), Hiroshi Ikematsu (Contrabass),
Satoshi Takeshima(Percussion)

Voice lesson (private, by Hitomi Ono)

• 60 minutes

Voice training for Singing of any genre of Music

Ashiya ( Main Office and Studio )

• 2-12, Kawanishi-cho,
• Ashiya,
• Hyogo 659-0072
• Japan
• Tel: +81(0)797 34 3451
• Fax: +81(0)797 34 3452

Regularly teaching in Tokyo and Fukuoka

Hitomi Ono
After the graduation of the Osaka College of Music (Voice), Hitomi Ono continued to study Voice with Jean Stawski and Donald Sulzen in Munich,Germany. At the same time she studied languages German at the Goethe Institiute and later Italian in the Maximilian University of Munich.
She has studied intensively Voice with Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, Sarah Walker, Roger Vignoles and others and Languages in Germany, Italy, France , England and USA for totally 11 years.




In 1989 she started with having the lesson of the Alexander Technique in Munich with Tessa Codron and Inge Henderson,and In 1993 after 3 year training of the West Sussex Centre for the Alexander Technique with Adam Nott and Rosemary Nott, she became the first STAT( the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique) recognized Japanese Alexander Technique teacher.




In 1999 she became the first Japanese Andover Educator trained by Barbara Conable and started with the course of the
Body Mapping for Musicians. Since 2008 she is the President of the Andover Educators Japan.


Since 1997 She teaches the Alexander Technique in the Soai University,Osaka. Also she gave many classes of the Alexander Technique for Musicians at Universities, Festivals and Conventions in Japan.
In 2009 she taught the Alexander Technique in the Geneva Conservatory for 5 days with 4 introduction classes and many private lessons, Since then she teaches regularly in Geneva.
In 2010 she teaches as the official Alexander Technique teacher of the Verbier Music Festival & Academy, Switzerland.
She teaches in English, German, French and of course in Japanese.

She wrote, and translated and edited the following books in Japanese:

• The Alexander Technique by Hitomi Ono (2007, Shunjusha)

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• What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body by Barbara Conable (2000, Seishin Shobo)
• The Structures and Movement of Breathing by Barbara Conable (2004, Seishin Shobo)
• Indirect Procedures by Pedro de Alcantara (2009, Shunjusha)
• Master the Art of Running by Malcom Balk and Andrew Shields (2009, Shunjusha)
• What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body by M.Malde, M.J Allen and K.A.Zeller (2010, Shunjusha)

In 1991 She fonded AMAC corporation and gives for Musicians the opportunities and spaces to study and work as Executive Director.