Tomoko Fujita

Biography

Hailed as “first-rate” by The Boston Globe, cellist Tomoko Fujita enjoys an active musical life as a performer, educator and administrator. As a founding member and the cellist of the Bryant Park Quartet for ten years, she presented numerous concerts and interactive outreach performances nationally and internationally, and released a CD album entitled “BPQ”. She collaborates regularly with pianist Luba Poliak, and has performed with esteemed artists such as Itzhak Perlman, members of the Cleveland, Emerson, and Juilliard String Quartets, dancer Wendy Whelan, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Having previously served on the music faculties of Princeton and Hofstra universities, she is currently Assistant Professor of Cello at Montclair State University and serves as coordinator of the Cali Pathways Project, an initiative aimed at creating dynamic and comprehensive pathways to higher education and careers in music for student musicians from under-resourced backgrounds. She also coaches at the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program. In the summers, Tomoko is in residence at the Kinhaven Music School in Weston, VT. 

For more information, visit www.tomokofujita.com.

Research

Cello and Chamber Music