Festival Soloists: Yuko Tanaka

Harpsichord, Fortepiano and Continuo – Oakland, CA

Stanford University (DMA, MA); Tufts University (BA).  Native of Tokyo, Japan, Yuko is active as harpsichord soloist, ensemble player and educator.  She performs with numerous ensembles including Musica Pacifica, Music of the Spheres, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. 

She has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. She maintains a private studio and conducts master classes and appears as guest lecturer at various universities.  Yuko has studied with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford, Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, and Ketil Haugsand in Oslo, Norway. 

She performs on a Taskin harpsichord, built in 1987 by Kevin Fryer, a Vaudry harpsichord, built by Kevin Fryer in 1992 and a copy of a Stein Fortepiano, rebuilt by Janine Johnson and John Phillips.  She will perform in Regensburg, Germany in June 2006.  She has CDs available.