Ayako Hidetani

Ayako Hidetani

Ayako Hidetani has focused her activities upon Japanese literatures, performing recitations in Japanese across European countries, which leads to the development of cultural exchange established on what she refers to as "linguistic melody". She in 2007 designed and directed "Festival de Una Flor" in Spain, contributing to the configuration of the programme and the success of the stage. In 2010, she launched the organisation "The Blest Council”, and re-innovated as “Education by Art”.


Until 1996 she engaged in acting on dramas and films, and in the following years of 1997-2010 she conducted a literature reciting and music tour “Recite a Poem”. In 2004, in response to an invite by the foundation of the Nobel Laureate J.R. Jiménez, she performed recitation in Spain.


Her role was not only limited to a literature recitalist but also a producer on multiple stages. Upon receiving the invitation from the city mayor of Deutsch-Wagram in Austria, in 2011, she organised a project of music and literature reciting in Musikschule Deutsh-Wagram in lockstep with the local student choir. In the same year, the director of Viktor Frankl Institute in Austria expressed the message of support for her interpretation of “Man's Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl that depicts his experience at the concentration camp during WWII.


In 2023, she ignited a project called “Unite Peace & Art Programme”, symbolised by the first two concerts in the UK, at St Salvator’s Chapel of the University of St Andrews, and Greenbank Parish Church in Glasgow. The ultimate goal of this project is to innovate the consciousness about peace creation held by the general public in the dimension of the arts, and Hidetani sets it as an initial objective in the approaching horizon to escort the artists and young choirs in Europe to an exhibiting opportunity in peace memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.