Japanese-born violinist Fujiko Imajishi has made her home in Canada since 1968. After studies with Lorand Fenyves, Ruggiero Ricci, Franco Gulli and the Hungarian Quartet she went on to win both the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Competitions. Fujiko Imajishi has performed as a soloist with leading Canadian orchestras and is currently the concertmaster of both the National Ballet of Canada and Esprit Orchestra. She has enjoyed a long association with Toronto’s New Music Concerts with whom she gave the Canadian première of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto in 1999, a work she revisited with Esprit Orchestra in 2003. NMC’s compact disc Lutosławski conducts Lutosławski includes her performance of Partita and Chain II, recorded during the composer’s final conducting appearance in 1993. In November 2002 she performed Anthèmes for violin solo in the presence of composer Pierre Boulez on the occasion of the presentation of the International Glenn Gould Prize, and in December gave the world première of Reconciliation for solo violin by the English composer Geoffrey Palmer, commissioned by New Music Concerts. Fujiko Imajishi is a founding member and first violinist of the string quartet Accordes.
