An eminent member of the up-and-coming American ensemble, the Attacca Quartet, Keiko Tokunaga has already established a formidable reputation as a soloist and a chamber musician across North America, Italy, Mexico and in her native Japan. With the Attacca Quartet, whose performances are praised to be “…in a word, sensational” (The New York Times,) she served as a guest artist at the Hunter College of New York and Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival and as a violin faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has been a member of the Attacca Quartet (www.attaccaquartet.com) since 2005, which was the Grand Prize winner of the Alice Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Artists International Competition.
She has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in such major venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Banff Centre in Canada, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In September of 2009, Ms, Tokunaga gave her solo debut recital at Ohji Hall, Tokyo.
Ms. Tokunaga holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from the Juilliard School, where she is a faculty member of the Pre-College Division, teaching ear training. She is currently under sponsorship by the Information Development Co., Ltd. and ARUMA Inc.
