Violinist Airi Yoshioka has concertized
throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada. Deeply committed
to chamber music, Ms. Yoshioka is the founding member of the Damocles
Trio and Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances
with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist
with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival
orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival.
An enthusiastic performer of new
music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the
New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed annually in the school’s
FOCUS! Festival as well as with the ModernWorks!, Lower Eastside Ensemble
for Contemporary Music and Continuum. Of a performance with the New
Juilliard Ensemble, the New York Times wrote, “Airi Yoshioka played
the violin solo touchingly.”
A native of Japan, Ms. Yoshioka came to the United States at the age
of 12 and received her early training as a student of Honorary Distinction
at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She holds a B.A. in English
from Yale University, where she received the Branford College Arts Award
for outstanding contribution to the arts. A winner of the school’s
concerto competition, she received an M.M. and D.M.A. from The Juilliard
School. Attended summer festivals include Meadowmount, Encore, Sarasota,
Banff, and Aspen. Among her teachers and coaches have been Jorja Fleezanis,
Glenn Dicterow, Joey Corpus, Stephen Clapp, Syoko Aki, Felix Galimir,
Paul Kantor, Jerome Lowenthal, and Seymour Lipkin, as well as members
of the Juilliard and Tokyo String Quartets.
She has served on the faculties of the Point CounterPoint Summer Music
Camp and the Wintergreen Music Festival, Third Street Music School Settlement
and currently teaches at the University of Maryland Baltimore County
as Assistant Professor of Music. Educational outreach has been a vital
aspect of Ms. Yoshioka’s professional life through her work as
a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center Institute.
In addition, she has taught music at New York City public schools through
the Morse Fellowship program and has performed in hospitals, hospices,
and nursing homes as a recipient of the Community Service Fellowship.
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