Akiko Tarumoto

violin, Philharmonic Affiliates Chair

About this Artist

Akiko Tarumoto began her violin studies at age 5. Her principal teachers have been Masao Kawasaki, Dorothy DeLay, and Glenn Dicterow. A native of Eastchester, NY, Tarumoto studied at the preparatory division of The Juilliard School and received her Bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature with honors from Harvard University in 1998. In 2000, she received her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and joined the second violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In 2004, she was appointed to the first violin section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim.

Tarumoto returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in fall 2011 as a member of the second violin section and was appointed to fifth chair of the first violin section in March 2015. In January 2017, she was named Assistant Concertmaster.