Keiko Tokunaga takes a break from playing the second fiddle in the Attacca Quartet and explores the beauty of solo violin repertoire! This album is a collection of pieces that are dear to the people who mean the world to Keiko. A passionate advocate of the chamber music of all eras, violinist Keiko Tokunaga has already established a formidable reputation as a soloist and a chamber musician across North and South America, Europe, Australia, and in her native Japan. As a member of the New York-based Attacca Quartet, an internationally acclaimed string quartet praised as “…in a word, sensational” (The New York Times) and for its “musical maturity far beyond its members’ years” (The Strad), Keiko has soloed with orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra, Virginia Arts Fetival Chamber Orchestra, Amherst Symphony Orchestra and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. She has performed both as a soloist and a chamber musician in such major venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rubin Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Banff Centre in Canada, Ohji Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and Izumi Hall in Osaka. Since Keiko joined in 2005, the Attacca Quartet has won numerous prestigious awards, including the First Prize of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011; the Third Prize and the Australian Broadcast Corporation Classic FM Listener’s Choice Award of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The Attacca Quartet was the artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2014-15 season. Keiko holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees as well as Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. She has been on faculty at The Juilliard School Pre-College since 2008, and currently maintains a private violin studio in Manhattan. Keiko plays on a Stefano Scarampella violin from 1900.