Profile
Twenty-six-year-old Japanese pianist Yukine Kuroki has been taking the piano world by storm. In a one-year period, she won first prize in the Liszt Utrecht Competition (2022) and the Dublin International Competition (2022), and third prize in the Rubinstein Competition in Israel (2023). Now performing worldwide. Her concerts this season include Carnegie and the Concertgebouw. Also she has performed in Netherlands, Norway, Hungary, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, USA, Canada, Israel,China,South Korea and Japan.
She studied at Showa Piano Art Academy under FumikoEguchi and she is a teacher at Showa music University from 2025 April.
At the age of seven, she has performed with Tokyo New City Orchestra under the baton of Akira Naito.
She has performed with Holland Radio Philharmonic Orchestra , Ireland national symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra , Polish Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra ,Yomiuri Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra ,Tokyo New City Orchestra,Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra,Astana Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.
*3rd Prize 17th Arthur Rubinstein competition - March 2023
*1st Prize Liszt Utrecht 2022 - September 2022
*1st Prize 12th Dublin Piano International Competition -May 2022
*Top Three Prize(Despatch Cadegory),International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA -January 2020
*Silver Prize,(Professional Category),PTNA Piano Competition -August 2019
* Gold Prize, (Professional Category) The 19thInternational Chopin piano Competition in ASIA – January 2018
*Gold Prize ( G Category), PTNA Piano Competition - August 2017
*Outstanding Performance Award in The Semifinal, The 4thChina Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition – June 2017
* Special Prize ,The First Arthul Rubinstein International Youth Piano Competition – October 2016
* Grand Prix, (C Group), EMCY Prize, Special Prize(Best Performance of Piece by Balys Dvarionas), PianaleAcademy Prize, The 10th Balys Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists and Violinists -February 2016
* Special Prize ,Junior Academy Eppan - April 2016
*First Prize (Yasuko Fukuda Scholarship Award), The 7thYasuko Fukuda Scholarship Award Audition – August 2015
*Semi-Finalist at the First Cliburn Junior Competition and Festival – June 2015
Concerto Repertoire
Liszt Concerto No.1
Liszt Concerto No.2
Tchaikovsky Concerto No.1
Chopin Concerto No.1
Chopin Concerto No.2
Schubert/Liszt Wanderer
Rachmaninov Concerto No.3
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Thema of Paganini
Ravel Concerto in G major
Grieg Concerto
Beethoven Concerto No.1
Beethoven Concerto No.5
Mozart Concerto No.12
Mozart Concerto No.26
Prokofiev Concerto No.3
Schumann Concerto in a minor
Saint Saens Concerto No.2
Takashi Yoshimatsu Piano Concerto Memo Flora Op.67