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Mayumi Kanagawa, violin

Sunday, May 20, 5pm

The home of Tom Driscoll and Nancy Quinn, San Francisco
$100 per person/$175 per couple

California Music Center is proud to present the winner of the 2011 Klein Competition 1st Prize, violinist Mayumi Kanagawa, performing works by Bach, Ysaÿe, Barber, Debussy and Saint-Saëns, with pianist Dmitriy Cogan. To purchase tickets, please email info@californiamusiccenter.org or call 415.252.1122.

Seventeen-year-old violinist Mayumi Kanagawa is a senior at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, and an Academy student at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studies with Robert Lipsett. First prize winner of the 2011 Irving M. Klein Competition in San Francisco, she has also won top prizes in the Cooper, Stulberg, and Corpus Christi International Competitions, and soloed with many orchestras including the New West Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Culver City and Torrance Symphonies, and the Western Michigan University Orchestra. Mayumi's former teachers include Yoshiko Nakura and Masao Kawasaki, with whom she studied in the Juilliard Pre-College Division; she has studied chamber music with Arnold Steinhardt, Endre Granat, and Guilliaume Sutre, among others. Currently concertmistress of the Crossroads Chamber Orchestra and co-concertmistress of the American Youth Symphony under Maestro Alexander Treger, Mayumi has participated and performed in the New York String Orchestra Seminar, International Musician's Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, the Encore School for Strings, Ishikawa Music Academy, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Verbier Festival Academy; she was most recently selected as a Finalist in the Presidential Scholar in the Arts program.