 Born
in Saitama, Japan, Ikuko Kanda began her
violin studies at the
age of four. Two years later she began studying with Toshiya Eto, a
former faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1984, she won
the Saitama Prefecture New Figure Concert Audition, and played the first
movement of the Symphonie Espagnole by Lalo. In 1994, Kanda performed
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the University of Wyoming Symphony
Orchestra. She received her bachelor’s degree in Performance from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo in 1994 and her Music Performer's Certificate in Violin at the University of
Wyoming in 1997.
She has played with the Shinsei Nihon Symphony and the Gunma Symphony
Orchestras in Japan,
the Santa Fe Festival Ballet,
The Musica de Cámara Orchestra in Santa
Fe,
The Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and
the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.
Kanda enjoys spending time with her very cute cats Katrin and Katja. She plays on a violin by Tetsuo Matsuda and a bow by Pierre-Yves Fuchs.
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Currently
she is a member of the New Mexico