Biography in English to be found at the bottom of this page.

2010年ブラームス国際コンクール第1位、2011年ウィンザー祝祭国際弦楽コンクール第1位。フィルハーモニア管弦楽団からスロヴェニア軍楽隊まで国内外の一流オーケストラと共演を重ね、世界的作曲家／指揮者ヨハン・デ・メイから協奏曲作品を献呈されるなど、その演奏は多方面で支持が厚い。幅広いレパートリーの中核にラフマニノフ研究を据え、ワールドワイド・デビュー盤「ラフマニノフ：チェロ作品全集」（2012年）、室内楽の殿堂ウィグモア・ホール（ロンドン）史上初のチェロによる「オール・ラフマニノフ・リサイタル」（2018年）、著書「ラフマニノフ考」（2023年）など、その先駆けとして確固たる実績を築いている。「名曲アルバム」「news zero」「題名のない音楽会」などメディアにも多数出演。また、指揮者としてロンドンで創設したナイツブリッジ管弦楽団の音楽監督を3年間務めた他、2016年には対アンゴラ外交関係樹立40周年記念事業としてカメラータ・ルアンダを指揮し、アフリカのオーケストラ史上初となる日本ツアーを成功に導いた。使用楽器は日本ヴァイオリンより貸与の1734年製ゴフリラー。2019年齋藤秀雄メモリアル基金賞受賞。

（2023年9月現在）

Yuki Ito, whilst studying at the Royal College of Music in London, won 1st prize at both the International Brahms Competition in Austria and the UK’s most prestigious Windsor Festival International String Competition. He has since been enjoying an international career, appearing with major orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Klagenfurt Symphony, Slovenian Armed Forces Band, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as regularly giving recitals around the globe.

Amongst many esteemed artists of various artistic fields with whom he performed, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Julian Lloyd Webber, Xavier de Maistre and Svetlana Zakharova, he has made a particularly strong musical relationship with the world-renowned composer/conductor Johan de Meij, who has dedicated numerous works (new works / arrangements) to him after a series of international collaborations. He also played for Seiji Ozawa’s special concert under his presence, and gave a private recital personally invited by HRH the Prince Edward.

He is widely known as specialist of Rachmaninoff’s works, demonstrated in such achievements as releasing his world-wide debut album “Rachmaninoff Complete Cello Works”, giving “All Rachmaninoff Recital” at Wigmore Hall as the first ever cellist in the legendary hall’s history, and writing his first monograph book on Rachmaninoff commemorating the composer’s 150th birth anniversary (due to be published in Autumn 2023), for which, together with his service to introducing the British cello music to wider audiences in Japan, he was awarded the Hideo Saito Memorial Award in 2019: one of the most honourable music awards in Japan.

Having been active also as conductor, he founded the Knightsbridge Orchestra in London in 2013 and, in 2016, he led the initial Japan tour of Camerata Luanda of Republic of Angola to success, historical event which marked the first tour in Japan ever by an African orchestra.

He plays a Goffriller Cello made in 1734 kindly loaned by Nippon Violin.

(As of September 2023)

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