Biography

 Yuri Inoshita is a Japanese pianist based in London, currently pursuing her MMus studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire under the tuition of Martino Tirimo.

 

 Born in Barcelona, raised in Paris and Tokyo, Yuri started her musical training at the age of 5 and received piano, solfège and choir lessons at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy. After graduating from Toho Gakuen High School of Music, she completed the bachelor in Intercultural Communication at Hosei University in Tokyo, besides her musical studies at Toho Gakuen College of Music. 

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 As a soloist, Yuri has been performing in public since young age and was awarded the Special Jury’s Award in Japan Junior Classical Music Competition when she was 13. She has been taking part of the Baroque Ensemble in Tokyo and gave performances on clavichord in various concerts including the Baroque Festival 2016 at Matsumoto Memorial Hall.

 

 Since moved to London, she has given concerts at great venues such as St. James’s Piccadilly, St. Paul’s Covent Garden, St. John’s Upper Norwood, Polish Hearth Club, University Women’s Club, etc. She is regularly invited to perform at St. Alfege Church, St. George’s Beckenham and the Old Royal Naval College Chapel. Since September 2023, she is a scholar of the Peter Harris Charitable Trust.

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 As well as her solo career, she is strongly interested in collaborative works and was awarded the David Gosling Prize for Piano Accompaniment in the academic year 2022/23. As a collaborative pianist, she works mainly with vocals, strings and wood winds, and regularly performs for Red Events UK as a member of the Mystery Ensemble. She has taken parts in many chamber music projects to perform piano quartet, piano quintet, flute trio and clarinet trio. In October 2023, she formed her piano trio named “Meissa Trio”  https://www.meissatrio.com which has won the First Prize in the World’s Best Musicians Competition and Second Prize in the MIMA Young Artist Competition. She has also participated in various vocal projects including Keyboard and Voice Festival 2024 highlighting the song cycles by Stephen Hough, workshop taken by National Opera Studio and masterclass taken by Thomas Quasthoff at the Wigmore Hall.