Hajime Mizoguchi, violoncellist as well as being composer,was born 1960 in Tokyo.

He started playing piano at 1963 and violoncello at 1971,as he decided his life time job intuitively when he had watched Karajan in a TV proglam.
From 1978 to 1985 at Tokyo university of art, he majored in violoncello and while being at school, he also started playing the cello with Japanese pop-singer and working as a studio musician for radio, T.V.films, and albums. At the same time, he was also working as an arranger in some of these contexts.

In 1982, at the age of 22, he met a serious traffic accident.Ironically, this is what made him start composing. As he wanted to divert his pain of whiplash by music. He had started to write what he wanted to listen when the sequela of the accident distress him so bad.That’s why he calls his own music “A short piece for sleepless night”.

In 1986, he has released his 1st album “Half inch dessert”. At this recording, he worked as a composer, an arranger, and a violoncellist.
From that time on, he has released more than 20 albums including mortion picture soundtracks, has performed in many concertswith his own or ensembles, has produced various musicians, and soon.

He also has showed great talents while performing as a DJ in radio programs, appearing in CFs,etc. By the late of 1980’s, he was generally recognized as one of the leading musician in Japan. And until now, he already had absorbed his main influence Pablo Cazals, John Coltrane, and had fully established his own sound and style. His performance and composition show an extraordinary melodic gift as well as great orchestral sonority.

Now Hajime Mizoguchi rives his whole mind to play violoncello and to write his own music, not for himself but for the audience. Nothing gives him so great a pleasure as that his music makes them happy. For the future, he hopes to open his arms all over the world.