Iwamoto Mari
Iwamoto Mari (1926–1979) was a Japanese violinist.
Born in Japan to a Japanese father and an American mother, she was a child prodigy, winning the All Japan Music Competition's violin category in 1937.
From 1946 to 1949, she was a professor at the Tokyo Academy of Music, resigning the post in 1949 in order to spend a year in the US.
She founded the Iwamoto Mari String Quartet in Japan in 1967, with violinist Tomoda Yoshiaki, viola player Suganuma Junji and cellist Kuranuma Toshio; the quartet won a special prize at the Suntory Music Award in 1979, shortly prior to Mari's death from cancer on 11 May 1979.
References
- Margaret Mehl (September 10, 2011). "Three Violin Maidens (2): Iwamoto Mari". Retrieved 2012-05-03.
- Louis Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. Accessible via Google Books.
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