YUKIKO UNO

Japanese violinist Yukiko Uno has been a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition. Previously she won the 1st prize at the International Andrea Postacchini Violin Competition (Italy) and the Chengdu Guangya Violin Competition (China). Furthermore she was awarded the prestigious “Paul Roczek Award 2020” from University Mozarteum Salzburg.

Yukiko has performed soloistically with Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Belgian National Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Lviv Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Nagoya, under the batons of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Hugh Wolff, Johannes Kalitzke, Eiji Oue, Kazuki Wada amongst many others.

She has played as a soloist and a chamber musician at various international festivals such as Yellow Barn (USA), Palermo Classica (Italy), Classy Sundays (Belgium), St.Gellert International Music Festival (Hungary).

Yukiko enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts in the class of Natsumi Tamai, and continued her study at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of Pierre Amoyal and Rainer Schmidt, where she obtained her Bachelor degree with the highest honor. Currently she studies the MA in Solo Performance, in the class of Rainer Schmidt at Musik Akademie Basel, as a scholarship recipient from the Yamaha Music Foundation from 2021.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 6, Op. 27

SESSION 2

L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 7 in C minor. Op. 30, No. 2
F. KREISLER: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2
J. WIDMANN: Étude Nos. 1 & 3

SEMI-FINALS

S. PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
H. WIENIAWSKI: Fantasia on Themes from ‘Faust’, Op. 20

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

GRAND FINAL

J. BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77