Award-winning pianist to open concert season with Honolulu quartet

NAKAMATSU

The Galliard String Quartet will perform Friday in Hilo with pianist Jon Nakamatsu.

In 1973, 4-year-old Jon Nakamatsu felt he couldn’t live without a piano. He begged his Hawaiian born-and-raised parents for one, after being introduced to the instrument in his preschool in California, where they lived.