Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born 16 June 1976) is an American violinist and violist.

Ngwenyama whose parents are from Zimbabwe and Japan, grew up in Southern California. She had first piano and violin lessons before joining the age of twelve to the viola. She attended until 1996, the Curtis Institute of Music and then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Seventeen year old, she won the Primrose Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. She made her debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington and won a 1997 Avery Fisher Career Grant. At Harvard University, she studied afraikanische and Asian religions and obtained a Master degree in 2002.

In EDI Records released several CDs Ngwenyamas: CHE: A Musical Biography and JS Bach Partitas with guitarist Michael Long, Rubinstein Sonatas with pianist Jennifer Lim and Il Principe: Courtly Airs and Dances with Michael Long and violinist David Brewer. She performed with renowned orchestras, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa -Pekka Salonen and the National Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a chamber musician and worked as a visiting professor in 2007 at the University of Notre Dame and 2008-09 at the Jacobs School of Music Indiana University. She is also director of the Primrose International Viola Competition.

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• Classical violinist
• Classic violist
• Americans
• Born in 1976
• Woman