Yuko Inoue

Yuko Inoue, winner of the 17th Budapest International Viola Competition, has performed as a soloist throughout Europe and Japan with orchestras including Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, F. Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. She is a member of the Dante String Quartet, Fibonacci Sequence and Gemini. She has been guest principal with the Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. Her CD, ROMANZE: The Romantic Viola, with pianist Kathron Sturrock, was one of Classic CD magazine’s Choices of the Month and was praised with similar enthusiasm by The Strad and Gramophone. She has recorded all three J. S. Bach viola da gamba sonatas and Chaconne for Quartz Records.

Yuko teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and gives masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan.