Kay Nakazawa

Kay Nakazawa is a Washington, D.C.-based violin instructor and performer. She also teaches piano.

From an early age, Kay began her violin studies at the Music Institute of Chicago. She studied with Kyung Yu during her undergraduate years at Yale, performed at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Russia as a member of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and studied with Ian Swensen at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she earned her master's degree in violin performance.