Yuki Inagawa

Yuki Inagawa was born in Sapporo, Japan, and studied in Tokyo with Keiko Takeuchi and in Berlin with Georg Sava.

She began her piano studies at the age of six, later adding composition, ensemble work, and vocal training to her education.

She won early prizes in various competitions and performed winner concerts in Japan, Hungary, and Germany. In 2003, during her postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, she received the Steinway Promotion Prize.

Due to her intelligent and highly sensitive ensemble playing, Yuki Inagawa is a highly sought-after chamber music partner. Since 2001, she has regularly performed as a keyboard instrumentalist with the musicians of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in several chamber music ensembles, performing in all major concert halls in Berlin as well as at various outdoor concerts.

As an orchestral keyboard instrumentalist and accompanist, she has engagements with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, and has been involved in numerous CD and radio recordings, as well as film productions. In February 2018, her first chamber music CD with Gernot Adrion, the associate principal violist of the RSB, was released and received excellent reviews.

Her other great passion is choral music and choral symphonies. For nearly 20 years, she has worked as an accompanist with the Berliner Konzert Chor. She also serves in the same role with the Ernst Senff Chor. Since 2003, Yuki Inagawa has been deeply involved with the Clara-Schumann Children’s and Youth Choir of the Schostakowitsch Music School Berlin-Lichtenberg, working as part of the leadership team.