Muneko Otani is an American

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ist at the Mannes College The New School for Music whose CDs were published by E1 Music, Albany, Naxos,

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, and

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which were named as ''the best'' by ''

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'' magazine. She have studied violin at the Toho Gakuen School of Music under guidance from

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and did graduate work with Masuko Ushioda and Louis Krasner at the

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. Later on she performed at such places as the Tanglewood Music and Kennedy Centers and even played at the

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and

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ian

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. She also worked as an assistant at

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in Tokyo String Quartet and is currently a teacher at both the

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and the Mannes College.

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