Age: 21
“Throughout my performances, I hope to sense and understand the composers’ subtle and delicate emotions, and to strive to get as close as possible to their intentions.”
Yuki began playing the violin in her hometown, Sapporo, at the age of five. A music lover since youth, she enjoyed watching musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera or Wicked during her childhood. She first studied the violin under Yukari Fukushima and Tsugio Tokunaga and is currently studying with Pavel Vernikov. She graduated with high honours from the Toho Gakuen Music High School and is now enrolled at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
The 2026 edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal will mark Yuki’s debut in North America, and she is thrilled to discover the city of Montréal and its history. “I am truly grateful for the opportunity to participate in this wonderful competition, and I cannot wait to meet everyone in Montréal!”
In 2025, she won First Prize at the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Lithuania, receiving the Grand Prize for the best performance of a Heifetz transcription, along with seven special awards. During the competition, she played the Sibelius Violin Concerto for the first time with an orchestra, a memory she will cherish for a long time to come. She also won First Prize at the Vienna Classic Violin Competition, which led to her performance in the Grand Final in Dubai, where she received several special prizes. In 2024, she was awarded Second Prize at the Ysaÿe International Music Competition.
Yuki received Second Prize in the Music Competition of Japan, the country’s most prestigious national competition, and First Prize in the junior high school division of the All Japan Student Music Competition.
She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gunma Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra, the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. She has also collaborated with distinguished artists such as Itamar Golan and Alexander Chaushian.
Yuki plays on a 1764 Nicolò Gagliano violin, generously loaned to her through the cultural project Tora ni Tsubasa.
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