Yoko Nagae Ceschina

(5 April 1932 – 10 January 2015) was a Japanese-born patron of the arts and noted patroness of classical music.

Biography Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, to a businessman father and mother who played the piano domestically, Yoko Nagae was exposed to music at an early age. Her parents separated when she was 8, and her father discarded the piano from the family residence. To continue playing the piano, she searched out neighbours' residences which had pianos.

After graduating from secondary school, Nagae worked as a substitute music teacher. She later studied harp at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She was briefly married to a university classmate, but this marriage ended in divorce. Following her graduation, she went to Florence, Italy in 1960 to continue her studies in harp. She placed 6th at the 1965 International Harp Contest.

Ceschina died 2015 in Rome at the age of 82. She was not survived by any children