Yukiko Tanaka

Klavierbegleitung - accompagnement musical

Yukiko Tanaka was born in Kasugai, Japan. She started playing the piano at the age of 4. She attended the Music Gymnasium and finally the Aichi Conservatory, where she obtained her teaching diploma.
In Japan, she won several prizes in various national competitions. In 1996 she went to Basel to continue her piano studies and in 1998 she entered the virtuoso class of Christian Favre at the Conservatoire de Lausanne.

In 1999, she played Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and was awarded the Paderewski Prize. With her trio "ITOYAKA" she won the 3rd prize at the international chamber music competition in Trondheim.

In 2001, with the OCL, she performed Ravel's Concerto in G major and obtained her soloist diploma with congratulations from the Jury as well as the Colassis Prize.

Yukiko Tanaka is twice winner of the "Piano 80" competition in 2000 and 2002.

She also attended masterclasses with teachers such as Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Charles Rosen, Mauricio Kagel, Paul Badura-Skoda and François-René Duchâble, as well as chamber music courses with Gérard Wyss, Pierre Amoyal and Patrick Genet.
In 2002 and 2003 she studied with Konstantin Scherbakov in Winterthur.

She regularly gives chamber music concerts with the musicians of the OCL and the HEMU in Lausanne, including concerts in Riffelalp, the Tuesday Entr'actes and the Schubertiade. With the violinist Julien Zufferey, she played at the Festival des Concerts du Cloître de Guebwiller and at the Festival Radio France de Montpellier.

Yukiko Tanaka is an accompanist at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne for the cello and double bass classes, and also teaches piano at the Ecole de Musique de Lausanne.