Akiko Ono made her debut with Yehudi Menuhin and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra at the UNCEF Gala Concert in 1998. Since then she has enjoyed a thriving international career performing with orchestras including the London Mozart Players, Belgian National Orchestra, Weimar Staatskapelle, Lille National Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic. She has collaborated with conductors including Shlomo Mintz, Saulus Sondeckis, George Alexander Albrecht, Matthias Bamert, James Judd, Joji Hattori, and Christian Arming.

Recent recital appearances include the Wigmore Hall, the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall and tours in the Middle East and Costa Rica. Alongside her work as a soloist, Akiko sets great value on outreach activities and is one of the appointed artists of Japan Foundation for Regional Art-activities in the season 2007-2008. In 2006 she was invited by Midori Goto to join her community engagement project in Vietnam. Akiko had great success at numerous competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, Viotti-Valsesia Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Szigeti Competition, the Paganini Competition and the Forval-Scholarship Stradivarius Competition. Born in Tokyo, she moved to UK when she was 12 to study with Yehudi Menuhin and Natasha Boyarsky at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and with Dora Schwarzberg in Vienna at the University of Music and performing Arts.

Future engagements include a tour with NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and a concerto with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in 2009. Currently Akiko teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School in UK. She plays on a violin by J.B.Guadagnini, 1772.