Hanae Azuma (Hana) is a composer, sound artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hanae completed both her BM and MM at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment. During her studies in Japan, she mainly concentrated on the relationship between music and other visual/performing arts such as dance and films and has been collaborating with contemporary dancers on various projects as a composer. She studied not only classical and contemporary music composition but also learned Japanese traditional instrument Koto, traditional performance Kyogen, jazz theory etc. at Tokyo University of the arts to expand the capability of her creativity. She also completed her MM of music technology at New York University in 2014.