Tomoko Fujita
cello

Website:
www.bryantparkquartet.com

A native of Port Jefferson, NY, Tomoko Fujita is a musician of wide-ranging interests. As founding cellist of the Bryant Park Quartet, she has performed across the country at venues ranging from traditional concert halls, universities, and art galleries to community centers, private homes and coffeehouses. Deeply committed to community outreach, the BPQ was recently awarded a Residency Partnership Program grant by Chamber Music America, and has previously shared their music with thousands of school children in Kentucky and Ohio, and developed residencies at public school districts in New York and Iowa. In addition to playing with the quartet, Tomoko has collaborated with esteemed artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Roger Tapping, Kathy Murdock, Eugene Drucker, and Larry Dutton.

Tomoko has premiered and performed many contemporary works as a member of the New Fromm Players, Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players and New Juilliard Ensemble, as well as a soloist. Equally comfortable with the baroque cello, she has recently performed at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series.

Tomoko graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a double degree: a B.M. in cello performance as a student of Norman Fischer; and a B.A. in psychology. Having earned a M.M. at The Juilliard School while studying with Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins, she is currently working with Colin Carr in the D.M.A. program at Stony Brook University. In addition to being on the faculties of the Stony Brook University Pre-College Program and The Stony Brook School, Tomoko is a Fellow at The Perlman Music Program.