Akiko Fujimoto, WYO Music Director and Symphony Orchestra Conductor Hailed by the Virginia Gazette as "a very talented conductor who knows her score and her musicians," Akiko Fujimoto serves as the Conducting Associate for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the William & Mary Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Williamsburg Youth Orchestras. As a member of the Virginia Symphony conducting staff, Fujimoto has conducted the VSO in classical, holiday, and educational concerts. Other orchestras Fujimoto has performed with include the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as part of the Orkney Conducting Institute. Prior to arriving in Virginia, Fujimoto served as the Music Director and Conductor of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard University where she led the MSO to new milestones, including performing with pianist and Mozart scholar Robert Levin. A native of Japan, Fujimoto attended high school in California and graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in music and psychology. She holds the Master of Music in conducting from both the Eastman School of Music and Boston University.   The Williamsburg Youth Orchestra is partially funded by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.