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Biography

She studied violin at Kunitachi College of Music in

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. In 1978, she went to study with violist Nobuko Imai at the

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. She was First Prize Winner at the 17th International Music Competition Budapest – Viola Competition. She is a member of the Fibonacci Sequence. Inoue has served as principal violist for several orchestras, and has given recital and chamber music performances with such artists as Gidon Kremer and Jean-Jacques Kantorow. She is a professor at the

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and gives viola masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan. Yuko Inoue plays a viola by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume dated 1852.

Selected discography

* Romanze: The Romantic Viola (2000), Black Box BBM1034 *

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: Chamber Music (2003), Hyperion CDA67391 – ''Soliloque et forlane'' for viola and piano (1937) * John Hawkins: Voices from the Sea (2003), Meridian CDE84496 – ''Gestures'' and ''Shadows'' * J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba (2006), Quartz QTZR2050 * Mozart: String Quintets K174 & K515, with The

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, (2007), CRD 3521 * Mozart: String Quintets K516 & K406, with The

, (2007), CRD 3522 * Benjamin Dale: ''The Romantic Viola'': Suite; Phantasy; Introduction and Andante; Yuko Inoue (viola),

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(piano), Naxos 8.573167 (2013)

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Japanese classical violists People from Hamamatsu Academics of the Royal Academy of Music {{classical-musician-stub