Tomoko Fujita is the founding cellist of the Bryant Park Quartet and a musician of wide-ranging interests. Tomoko has presented solo and chamber music recitals at many venues including the Staller Center for the Arts, Alice Tully and Paul Recital Halls of Lincoln Center, the Kosciusko Foundation, and Duncan Recital Hall.
An award-winner as a Tanglewood Music Center fellow, she was also a member of the New Fromm Players, Tanglewood’s contemporary music ensemble-in-residence. Tomoko has recently performed baroque cello in the Boston Early Music Festival and the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series.
In addition to teaching at the Stony Brook University Pre-College Program and the Port Jefferson Music Academy, and maintaining a private studio, she has served on the faculty of the Zephyr International Chamber Music Course and Festival in Courmayeur, Italy.
Tomoko graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a double degree: a B.M. in cello performance as a student of Norman Fischer; and a B.A. in psychology. She earned a M.M. at The Juilliard School while studying with Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins. She is currently working with Colin Carr in the D.M.A. program at Stony Brook University.
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