Hanami Sakurai was born in Chiba (Japan). Her musical education began with piano and horn. She had her first oboe lessons at the age of 15.
Hanami Sakurai studied oboe and chamber music at Aichi University of Art and Music and at Tokyo National University of Art and Music.
chamber music with Yoshiaki-Obata and Atsuko Matsuyama Schmalfuß and graduated with honors.
As a Yamaha scholarship holder, she studied concert oboe with Prof. Günther Passin at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and also completed her studies with
"with distinction and the title "Master of Arts".
She attended master classes with Christoph Hartmann, Kai Rapsch and Klaus Becker, among others.
Hanami Sakurai has gained a wealth of professional experience in the orchestral field, winning auditions for a temporary contract with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, where she is still a welcome substitute.
She also plays in the Salzburg Philharmonic and as a substitute in the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, in the Camerata Salzburg, with the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists, in the Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg under the direction of Tabea Zimmermann and solo oboe in the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich.