Muneko Otani, Violin

2010: Second 3 Week Session

Columbia University, Mannes College of Music.

Muneko Otani is the first violinist of the Cassatt String Quartet. As a member of the Cassatts, she has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall, the Tanglewood Music Theater, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. The Quartet has recorded for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik and Albany labels. Their CDs have been named three times in The New Yorker magazine's Best Of...CD Selections.

Ms. Otani studied with Toshiya Eto at the Toho-Gakuen School of Music, and did graduate work with Masuko Ushioda and Louis Krasner at the New England Conservatory, and at Yale University as assistant to the Tokyo String Quartet.

She is currently teaching at Columbia University and at the Mannes School of Music as an assistant to Lewis Kaplan.