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ASAKO KUBOKI, Violin
American-born
Asako Kuboki began her violin studies at the age of five in Japan.
She went on to study in the United States at the Peabody
Conservatory, with principal teachers Sylvia Rosenberg and Victor
Danchenko, and eventually received both her Bachelor and Masters of
Music degrees from there. Prior to joining the Saint Louis Symphony
Orchestra, in 2001, Ms. Kuboki performed extensively with the New
Horizon Chamber Ensemble, in Baltimore, a contemporary music group
that worked in collaboration with composers, poets, and visual
artists. Her musical career has taken her to Europe, Central
America, Asia, and throughout the U.S. playing chamber music. As an
orchestral player, she has performed with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, and the Key West
Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival
and School, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival,
the Credomatic International Music Festival in Costa Rica,
the Amerian Institute for Musical Studies in Austria, and the
Pacific Music Festival in her hometown, Sapporo, Japan. In recent
years Ms. Kuboki has been performing with the Sun Valley Summer
Symphony.
Naoki Hakutani, Piano
Originally from Kent, Ohio, pianist Naoki
Hakutani has recently been appointed as Visiting Assistant
Professor of Piano at The University of Arkansas at Little
Rock. He teaches Applied Piano as well as directing Class Piano
studies. Hakutani received degrees from Northwestern University
and Indiana University in Bloomington prior to receiving the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at
Austin, where he served as a Teaching Assistant in the Piano
Department. He was a prizewinner of the Young Texas Artists
Competition in 2001 and is the pianist of the Auberon Trio,
which in 2005 received Second Prize at the WRR Chamber Music
Competition in Dallas, Texas. He has performed as a soloist and
collaborator across the United States as well as Mexico, Japan
and Taiwan. This past summer included a performance with the
Korea Sinfonietta in Seoul as well as a lecture performance on
the music of Liszt at the Seoul National University of
Education.
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