Chihiro Kitada began playing the violin at the age of three. She won 4th Prize in the 7th Sendai International Music Competition and 2nd Prize in the 1st International Music Competition of Bratislava Academy of Performing Arts. She also won 1st Prize in the Junior High School Division of the 65th All Japan Student Music Competition. She has been awarded the IMA Encouragement Prize at the Ishikawa Music Academy, the Music Academy in Miyazaki Excellence Prize, and the Kirishima International Music Festival Prize.

Chihiro Kitada has performed at the Tokyo Spring Music Festival, Miyazaki International Music Festival, Kirishima International Music Festival, Beppu Argerich Music Festival and others. She has appeared with orchestras in Japan and abroad, including the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. She studied violin under Yoshiyuki Kawamoto, Eiko Komuro, Naoko Murakami, Isako Shinozaki, and Yuzuko Horigome. After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music and that school’s master’s degree program, she continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.