Taking Note — Keila Wakao

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First taking up the violin at age three, Keila Wakao was raised in a musical family with her mother on the piano and her father on the oboe. A regular student at the New England Conservatory of Music, she now plays on a 1690 Stradivarius violin. She performs Clara Schumann’s Romance, Op. 22, No. 1 and Polonaise No. 1 in D Major by Henryk Wieniawski.

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