Kyoko Yonemoto

Kyoko Yonemoto (米元響子; born June 25, 1984 in Tokyo) is Japanese classical music violinist. She has won numerous awards and performs mostly in Europe, where she lives, and in Japan.

Life and career She began playing the violin at the age of three, studying under Suzuki Aguri at the . In 1997, she began studying under . Also in 1997, she placed 4th in the Paganini Competition, becoming the youngest prize winner ever in that competition at age 13, receiving the Enrico Costa Memorial Prize. She went on to study at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she studied under Gérard Poulet and graduated with a concertist diploma. In 2004, she studied under Boris Belkin at the Maastricht Academy of Music, where she subsequently graduated with a master's degree in 2012. She released her first album in March 2019 on King International and this won Excellence Award from the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Since 2012 she has been a professor at the Maastricht Academy of Music. She has lived in Belgium, 2005 – Third place at the 6th Fritz Kreisler International Piano Competition