violin
Professor in the Practice of Violin. Syoko Aki studied in Japan at the Toho Academy of Music and in the United States at Hartt College and the Yale School of Music. She has taught at the Eastman School and the State University of New York at Purchase. She has appeared as soloist with leading conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Gerard Schwartz, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Kenneth Schermerhorn. Miss Aki has been concertmaster and soloist with the New York Chamber Symphony, the New Japan Philharmonic, Waterloo Festival Orchestra and the New Haven and Syracuse Symphonies and has appeared in concerto and chamber music performances with Syzmon Goldberg, Henryck Szeryng, Broadus Erle, Leon Fleisher, Jaime Laredo, Joan Panetti and many others. A member of the Yale faculty since 1968, Miss Aki appears regularly in New Haven and at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.