Akiko Fujimoto
Conductor, Chorus for Instrumentalists
Akiko Fujimoto's is the Music Director of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard University. Ms. Fujimoto has served as the Assistant Conductor of the Hingham Symphony Orchestra and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Interim Music Director of the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2003-2004, Ms. Fujimoto took a leave from Harvard to serve as the Interim Music Director of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and a Lecturer in the Music Department at Stanford University.
Also active as a vocalist in contemporary music, Ms. Fujimoto co-directed New Music Ensemble Boston and has recorded music of Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound on Cantaloupe Records (2002). She has sung with numerous choirs in the Boston area, including the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Trinity Church choirs. From 2000-2003, she co-directed Canto Armonico, a chamber choir which performed music from
the Renaissance, Baroque and 20th-century Anglican repertoire.
BA in Music and Psychology, Stanford University; MM in Choral Conducting, Eastman School of Music; MM in Orchestral Conducting, Boston University.