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Karen Shinozaki, Violinist Karen Shinozaki regularly performs with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony as Principal Second Violin, the Marin Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra, as a regular extra in the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras, and is a frequent chamber music collaborator, playing with diverse groups including the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players (with Jeffrey Kahane) the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, and the Galapagos Quartet. Earlier this season she performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Brazilian jazz legend Helcio Milito and the Tamba Trio. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley and a longtime student of Serban Rusu of Tiburon, she continued her studies in Switzerland with Professor Igor Ozim at the Konservatorium Bern as a recipient of a Hertz Traveling Fellowship. Karen was among the youngest and the only American semifinalist at the 1987 Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa and has been a soloist with the Berkeley Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Marin Symphony, and Stratos, a conductorless ensemble. During the 2001-02 season she and her brother, Rick Shinozaki, will give the world premiere of the Double Concerto for two violins by Zdzislaw Wysocki, written especially for them and Kent Nagano, leading the Berkeley Symphony. She will also perform as soloist with the Santa Rosa Symphony. |
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