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 five and received piano, solfège and choir lessons at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris. 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 both clavichord and piano in various concerts including the Baroque Festival 2016 at the Matsumoto Memorial Hall.

 

 Since moved to London in 2021, she has given concerts at great venues such as St. James’s Piccadilly, St. Paul’s Covent Garden, 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. 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 2023. As a collaborative pianist, she works constantly with vocals, strings and wood winds, and regularly performs for Red Events UK as a member of the Mystery Ensemble. She has taken part of many orchestral projects as well as piano quartet, piano quintet, flute trio and clarinet trio. In October 2023, she formed her piano trio Meissa Piano 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 the Keyboard and Voice Festival 2024 highlighting the song cycles by Stephen Hough, the workshop taken by National Opera Studio and the masterclass taken by Thomas Quasthoff at the Wigmore Hall.