Akiko Yasuda

Japanese Violinist. She began violin studies at age 4 and is a music graduate of Tohogakuen Joshi Senior High School and Tohogakuen College. Winner of several prizes, she concentrated on chamber music after 1983 and formed the Yasuda String Quartet with cellist Ken-ichiro Yasuda. She has performed Haydn's collected string quartets and the chamber music of Beethoven.