Yuka Yamashita

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Yuka Yamashita

Biography

Yuka Yamashita (b. 1987, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese composer.

After graduating from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ms. Yamashita completed the Graduate School of Music, Department of Composition, Tokyo University of the Arts. She studied composition under Atsutada Otaka and Hidehiko Hinohara.

In 2011, she premiered her original oratorio Li Ling, and in 2014 she won the 25th Asahi Composition Prize (choir) for her suite for mixed chorus The Story of Sleeping Forest. Her choral works, piano works, and wind ensemble works have been published.

She composed Yuki (Snow) for the 2nd (2019) Tokyo International Chorus Competition, Chamber Choir Category.


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