Since winning the Gold Medal at the Second Quadrennial International Violin Competition in Indianapolis in 1986, Kyoko Takezawa has performed with world-renowned orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She has given recitals at major venues internationally and been a faculty member at the Aspen, Great Mountain and Lucerne Music Festivals. Ms. Takezawa performs on the “Camposelice” Stradivarius, on generous loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation, and the “Wieniawski” Guarneri del Gesu, provided by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.