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.
