Violist Nao Kubota is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. A passionate chamber musician, Nao was the Gold Prize winner of the 9th International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, and has worked closely with many of the leading string quartets of the generation, including the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, Borromeo, Cavani, and Danish String Quartets. In the Bay Area, Nao has performed in several chamber music series, including the Chamber Music Society of SF, Crowden Sundays at Four, and Benicia Chamber Players.

As an orchestral musician, Nao has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and regularly plays with several Bay Area orchestras, including the Santa Rosa Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, and Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera. Nao is a member of Delirium Musicum, where she can be heard on albums "Seasons" and "Cabinet of Curiosities" released with Warner Classics. Nao spends her summers at the Mendocino Music Festival, where she and her husband, cellist Tyler DeVigal, direct the Emerging Artists Program.