Artists

Yoko Fujita

Yoko Fujita was born in Japan, where she had the chance to be a student of Prof. S. Suzuki at the early age of 4 years. In 1975 she continued her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimir. Ms. Fujita made her debut in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall in 1979. From 1982 to 1986 she held the position of Assistant Concertmaster with the Bamberger Symphoniker. She has been a guest soloist with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kyoto Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wroclav Philharmonic in Poland. Chamber music engagements have brought her to festivals as famous as Toru Takemitsu's Music Today in Japan, the Seattle International Music Festival, Stavanger Music Festival in Norway, Musicades in Lyon/France, Festivale de Prades and, last but not least, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. Yoko Fujita is a founding member of the chamber orchestra New European Strings under the leadership of Dmitri Sitkovetsky, which in 1995 rose to the 'Classic Top Ten' in the US with their CD of the Goldberg Variations.

She is frequently engaged in contemporary music as a member of the ensemble TAG. Yoko Fujita has made CD recordings of masterpieces of Händel, Paganini, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and others. Yoko Fujita has lived in Zurich, Switzerland since 1987.