DUO RECITAL] Yuko Mifune and Yu Violin Kurokawa

[Yuu Kurokawa Profile] She won the first prize at the 75th Japan Music Competition, the Iwatani Prize (Audience Prize) and three other special awards; the Anna Piciulin Special Prize at the 2015 Rudolfo Lipizzi International Violin Competition and the Audience Prize at the 6th Sendai International Music Competition. Awards include the Idemitsu Music Award, Aoyama Music Award Aoyama Prize, Kurashiki City Arts and Culture Encouragement Award, Okayama Arts and Culture Award Grand Prix, Music Critic Club Award Encouragement Award, Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award Encouragement Award, and Kyoto City Art Newcomer Award. In the media, he has appeared on "Classic Club," "Best of Classics," "Enter the Music," "Untitled Concert," etc. After studying in Vienna and Brussels, he received a full scholarship to Toho Gakuen School of Music, where he completed his master's degree, and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique. (She is a recipient of the 37th scholarship from the Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation and a 2016,2017 scholarship from the Rohm Music Foundation.

[Yuko Mifune won the first prize at the 57th Japan Music Competition. After graduating from Toho Gakuen School of Music at the top of her class, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music as a Japanese Government Agency for Cultural Affairs Fellowship. She won first prize at the Freina Hourback International Piano Competition and the Juilliard Soloist Auditions. She has appeared on NHK's Best of Classics and hosted NHK-BS's Weekly Book Review. With drum/percussionist Akira Horikoshi, he breaks new ground with the classical unit OBSESSION, which he calls "the smallest and largest orchestra. Professor of Kyoto City University of Arts.