Mayumi Kanagawa, violin (Los Angeles, CA), is an undergraduate student of Professor Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik “hanns eisler” Berlin, and a graduate of the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences and The Colburn School Academy in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. Mayumi won first prize in the 2013 Jascha Heifetz Competition in Vilnius and the 2011 Irving M. Klein Competition in San Francisco. She has also won top prizes in the Cooper, Stulberg, and Corpus Christi International Competitions, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the New West Symphony, and the Colburn Orchestra. Mayumi has also been a featured artist on Performance Today’s Young Artist Series, with her recordings and interviews broadcast nationally on NPR stations. Mayumi's former teachers include Yoshiko Nakura and Masao Kawasaki, with whom she studied in the Juilliard Pre-College Division. She has studied chamber music with Arnold Steinhardt, Endre Granat, and Guilliaume Sutre, among others and served as co-concertmistress of the Crossroads Chamber Orchestra and American Youth Symphony under Maestro Alexander Treger. Past Yellow Barn musician (2014)