Yukiko Tidten-Yoshikawa  (pianist)
 

      Yukiko Tidten-Yoshikawa was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1982. She began playing the piano at the age of four. Later, she attended the Kyoto Horikawa Music High School and the University of Arts, Kyoto, where she achieved a bachelor degree as a pianist. She won medals at the Kyoto Piano Concours and several other Japanese prizes.

 

      From 2006 on, she studied at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in France, where she got the "Diplôme Supérieur d'Enseignement de Piano". Subsequently, she studied at the National Conservatory for Music and Dance in Lyon (CNSM), where she obtained the "Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien" in 2009 and the "Diplôme de deuxième cycle supérieur - Grade de master", a masters degree, in 2011. She wrote her master's thesis in French on Asian influences in the piano works of Claude Debussy (original title: "Le choc culturel de l'Orient dans l'œuvre pianistique de Claude Debussy").

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      Yukiko Tidten-Yoshikawa studied with Hiroyuki Abe, Géry Moutier, Henri Barda and Florent Boffard. She also attended master classes taught by Yasuko Matsuda, Pascal Devoyon, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Jacques Rouvier, Volker Banfield , Aldo Ciccolini and others.    

 

      She received scholarships from the Nomura Foundation (Japan) in 2007 and 2008 as well as from the Rohm Music Foundation (Japan) from 2009 to 2012. She also worked as a French-Japanese interpreter at the Kyoto French Music Academy.

 

      After spending two years in Berlin, she followed her diplomat husband to Pakistan, where they lived from 2013 to 2016. She kept up her activities as an international concert pianist in Islamabad, giving concerts at, inter alia, various embassies as well as the Goethe Center and the Alliance Française in Lahore. Furthermore, she also taught (master workshops) at the National College of Arts in Lahore.

 

       She returned to Berlin, Germany in 2016 and moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2021, and continues to perform salon concerts as well as family concerts on various occasions. At present, she offers piano classes at her residence in Tokyo, Denenchofu.