Setsuko Nagata
Violin
Born in Tokyo, Miss Nagata studied violin with Toshiya Eto. She came to the US in 1962 and enrolled at The Juilliard School, where she studied under Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian.
She has been soloist with the Municipal Orchestra, the Jamaica Symphony, the Great Neck Symphony, the NY Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra and the NC Symphony. 1968 saw her Carnegie Hall debut with the National Orchestral Association directed by John Barnette.
She has also appeared on TV, in radio, and in numerous recitals in the NY area. She has been active in teaching at Juilliard, the Meadowmount School of Music, Wesleyan University, Bowdoin College summer music school, a special program for the Manhattan School of Music, and in private teaching.
She has won the Fritz Kreisler Award, the Naumberg Scholarship Award, a teaching fellowship from Juilliard, prizes in the Hudson Valley Competition and the Swiss Tibor Varga International Competition.
As a chamber musician she has performed with the Aeolian Chamber Players, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Music Project, and her own group, The Cremona Arts Trio, which made its NY debut in December 1982 at the Metropolitan Museum.