Tomoko celebrated Mothers’ Day celebrated recently, and music composers have celebrated mothers throughout the year for centuries. Here is...

  Summer is a great time to travel, and Tomoko has enjoyed traveling since she was a young woman. Now with the pandemic, it is harder to tra...

  As a child, Tomoko experienced World War II in Japan. Her father and brother were conscripted to help the war effort as civilians, and the...

One of Tomoko’s favorite composers to perform is Bela Bartók. In her CD “Touria” (available from Amazon), Bartók is the featured comp...

At her November 2018 concert, Tomoko performed Ravel’s "Chansons madecasses" with flautist Tod Brody, cellist Eric Gaenslen, ...

When Tomoko attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the mid 1960s, there were fewer than a hundred students. But they w...