Shiho Toyonaga
Shiho Toyonaga, natural do Japão, tem tocado viola com orquestras na região de Chicago. Ela é a principal violista assistente da Northwest Indiana Symphony e suas apresentações de música de câmara foram transmitidas ao vivo pela WFMT. Atualmente ela faz parte do corpo docente da North Park University em Chicago e possui mestrado em performance de viola pelo Peabody Institute da Johns Hopkins University.
Atualizado em abril de 2009
Stories from This Author
The Clear Sounds of Tetsuo Matsuda
30 de Abril de 2009 • Shiho Toyonaga
The first time I heard of Tetsuo Matsuda was in 1992 in Tokyo. I was a violin student at a music conservatory in Tokyo and had just discovered and become infatuated by the dark rich sound of the viola. This is an often overlooked instrument of the string family. The viola is larger than a violin with a different set of strings but still played on the shoulder. A Japanese professor from the Julliard Conservatory in New York City was …
