Yuka YAMASHITA

After graduating from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, 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 for her suite for mixed chorus  “Nemuri no Mori no Hanashi (The Story of Sleeping Forest)”. Her choral works, piano works, and wind ensemble works have been published.