Yuka Tsuboi

Violin

Yuka Tsuboi was born in 1979 in Tokyo. In 1994 she was accepted into the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. Whilst there she played in many concerts in prestigious venues, such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Wigmore Hall. In 1998 she was invited by Lord Menuhin to play with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Germany. She continued her studies in Zurich in 2001 and played with Aargauer Symphonie Orchester, Akademisches Orchester and Orchester Musikhochschule and recorded for Schweizer Fernsehen and TV Espana. She won several international prize including the Rodolfo Lipizer Violin Competition in Italy, the Kiwanis Competition in Switzerland and the Sarasate Violin Competition in Spain. She also won scholarships from the Manoug Parikian Award, Yamaha Scholarship Competition and Margrit Meister Foundation in Zurich. Yuka Tsuboi studied with Kumiko Eto, Hu Kun, Ana Chumachenco and Zakhar Bron. She is currently working as an assistant to Zakhar Bron at Zurich Musikhochschule. She has taken several masterclasses with Yehudi Menuhin and Maurizio Fuks.