Gold Medalist of the International Russian Music Piano Competition and a winner of the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award, pianist Yukiko Sekino has been praised for her “thrilling, inspirational performance” (Florida Sun-Sentinel). She has performed extensively as a soloist and a chamber musician in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. Currently an Affiliate Artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sekino has presented many masterclasses and is piano faculty at the New England Conservatory Prep School. She will present a program featuring music by Mozart, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Yukiko made a debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, and has since performed with the New World Symphony, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Recent recitals include those at the Overtures Series in Washington, D.C., Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, Hitomi Memorial Hall in Tokyo, Japan, Northeast Asia International Piano Festival in China, and U.S. college campuses such as Eastman School of Music, MIT, and Ithaca College. She has given masterclasses in the United States and China.

An avid chamber musican and a new music performer, Sekino has been invited to Tanglewood Music Center, Thy Masterclass Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Between 2005 and 2008, she was a resident pianist of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2013, she performed as a soloist in Elliott Carter’s Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in culmination of Weill Institute Professional Training Workshop with John Adams and David Robertson.