Violinist. Born Mary Esther Iwamoto in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Marguerite Magruder and Masahito Iwamoto. She attended a music school, Lulilo, run by Russian expatriate Anna Dmitrievna Bubunova. She won the All Japan Music Competition, violin category, in 1937. In 1938, she made her first record at the age of 12. In 1946, following the Second World War, she took a teaching position with the Tokyo Academy of Music. In 1949, she resigned to travel in the US for a year. In 1967, she founded the Iwamoto Mari String Quartet, and with them made several records including 'Arnold Schönberg' (1972) and 'Mozart: String Quartets' (1975). They were awarded the Sontory Music Award for the promotion of Western music in Japan in 1979. She succumbed to cancer later that year at age 53.
Violinist. Born Mary Esther Iwamoto in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Marguerite Magruder and Masahito Iwamoto. She attended a music school, Lulilo, run by Russian expatriate Anna Dmitrievna Bubunova. She won the All Japan Music Competition, violin category, in 1937. In 1938, she made her first record at the age of 12. In 1946, following the Second World War, she took a teaching position with the Tokyo Academy of Music. In 1949, she resigned to travel in the US for a year. In 1967, she founded the Iwamoto Mari String Quartet, and with them made several records including 'Arnold Schönberg' (1972) and 'Mozart: String Quartets' (1975). They were awarded the Sontory Music Award for the promotion of Western music in Japan in 1979. She succumbed to cancer later that year at age 53.
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