Come listen to Yukine Kuroki in Warrenpoint on Thursday 13th March 2025
This March, Music Network is pleased to present the incredibly gifted Japanese pianist Yukine Kuroki.
Kuroki has conquered the hearts of many in recent years, winning both the Liszt Utrecht Competition and Dublin International Piano Competition in 2022, as well as being awarded third prize at the prestigious Rubinstein Competition in 2023.
Her mastery of the instrument prompted leading Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska to describe her as ‘a true poet at the piano, who can make you cry with a single note.’
Kuroki started playing the piano at the tender age of three and first performed with an orchestra when she was seven years old.
Since then she has been performing all over the world, including sold-out debuts with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.
The 2024/2025 season sees Kuroki make debuts at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Germany’s Munich Gasteig and Villa Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Kuhmo Hall in South Korea and at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival.
Kuroki will also make a triumphant return to the National Concert Hall, Dublin as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, and perform a solo recital at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
Her recordings Christmas with Yukine and Live at Liszt Utrecht can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and other streaming platforms. Kuroki has recently completed a master’s programme at Showa Graduate School of Music in Tokyo under Fumiko Eguchi.
Kuroki has won press plaudits from far and wide.
The Irish Times praised her ‘…staggering account of the teenage Shostakovich’s brutalist Sonata No. 1’.
BBC Music Magazine commented that she ‘wowed the international jury with her rendition of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy’.
de Volkskrant said that ‘Kuroki combines elegance with extraordinary technical capacities, a true Lisztian performer in every possible way.’
Running from 7-16 March, her tour kicks off in Sligo, and continues to Cork, Offaly, Dublin, Newry, Waterford, Westmeath and Kilkenny. A must-see for classical music fans, the programme will include Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and a selection of Transcendental Études by Lizst, as well as music by Rachmaninoff, Kapustin, and Tokuyama. Kuroki will also perform Fantasia on “Port na bPúcaí” by Dr. Fergus Johnston which was specially commissioned by Music Network for the tour.
Fri 7 March The Model, Sligo 7.30pm
Sat 8 March MTU Cork School of Music 7.30pm
Sun 9 March St. Brendan’s Church, Bantry, Cork 3.00pm
Tues 11 March Esker Arts Centre, Tullamore, Offaly 8.00pm
Wed 12 March Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin 7.30pm
Thurs 13 March, Newry Chamber Music, Warrenpoint Town Hall 7.30pm
Fri 14 March Waterford Music at the Garden Room, Medieval Museum 7.30pm
Sat 15 March Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard, Westmeath 7.00pm
Sun 16 March Concert Hall, Thomastown, Kilkenny 3.00pm.
Tickets €5-28 Euro, (booking fees may apply) https://www.musicnetwork.ie/whats-on/yukine-kuroki
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