Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Musician

Winner of the 2020 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance, violinist Keiko Tokunaga spends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Tokunaga has performed, toured and recorded extensively with the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet from 2005 to 2019, and has been praised by the Strings Magazine for possessing a sound “with probing quality that is supple and airborne” and for her “pure, pellucid bow strokes”. Ms. Tokunaga has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, Ms. Tokunaga  released her debut album, Jewels, from New York Classics Label.  She is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College as well as the Fordham University.