YUKI NEGISHI piano
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Friday 23 January 2026Pre-dinner performance
Doors/Champagne reception: 6pm Concert: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Post-dinner performance Doors/Champagne reception: 8.30pm Concert: 9pm to 10pm Tickets: £42 (+ booking fee) including champagne reception before performance |
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Celebrate the end of the week with a pre-dinner (6.30pm) or post-dinner (9pm) performance of Chopin, complete with a complimentary champagne reception (served from 30mins before).
The brilliant piano music of the great Frédéric Chopin has never been out of fashion since it first burst onto the international scene in the early 19th century. This music wasn’t intended for the great concert halls of today, but for the intimate setting of Parisian and London Salons of the aristocracy. This was the setting where Chopin felt most at ease and improvised many of his works for the first time. Concert pianist, Warren Mailley-Smith recently became the first British pianist to perform the complete works of Chopin in one series of concerts, from memory. |
Sonata No.2 concert programme
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Yuki Negishi
Steinway Artist Yuki Negishi has established herself as a pianist of rare poetry, passion and virtuosity, equally at home as an adjudicator, educator and researcher, captivating audiences wherever she performs around the world. Yuki has already performed in over 800 concerts in the UK alone, including many of the most important halls and festivals, and regularly performs about 30 concerts a year as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician in countries such as the Netherlands (Concertgebouw), France, Germany, Switzerland (Tonhalle), Italy (Festival di Londra, Blanc European Festival, Artepiano International Festival), Romania, Japan, China, Bangladesh and the USA. She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio, Xray FM, ITV, Channel 4, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and French television and radio.
She has released her debut CD through the Quartz label in May 2022, including music by Chopin, Kapustin, the world-premiere recordings of Melanie Spanswick's "Enigma" written for Yuki in 2019, and Robert Mitchell's "Our Hearts Dance the Infinite (As the Giant Puya Blooms)" to unanimous reviews from Gramophone, International Piano Magazine and Record Geijutsu Japan. Another CD has been released in conjunction with the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation of unrecorded works by the Japanese composer Koichi Kishi, with violinist Yukiko Ishibashi in October 2022, by the Japanese label Mittenwald. Her latest release (May 2024) of Preludes by Arensky, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Gershwin has also been praised by Colin Clarke of “Classical Explorer”- “This is a wonderful disc, magnificently programmed and superbly played…nourishing for the soul.”
During the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, she performed for various online festivals including the AndraTuttoBene Festival Online, Absolute Classics Festival Online (which featured on ITV News and her 5 recitals have reached over 100K views), Piano Week Online Festival and CityMusic Live (8 recitals). Her "Piano Music by Women" series in June/July 2020 was chosen in the TOP 5 online performances for the week of 29 June alongside Wigmore recitals by Angela Hewitt and Mitsuko Uchida/Mark Padmore by PIANIST Magazine.
She also served as a jury member for the Sussex International Piano Competition four times consecutively since its inauguration in 2010 (including the most recent 2018 edition) alongside such distinguished pianists as Artur Pizarro (Leeds 1st prize 1990), Vanessa Latarche (RCM Head of Keyboard) and Idil Biret. Other competitions she has adjudicated include the Open Piano Competition (2012), the London Youth Piano Competition (2019, 2021-2023), Music and Stars Awards (2020 & 2021), the Artepiano International E-Competition (2021-2023), the International Competition of Music and Arts 2021, the Indonesia International Youth Music Olympics (April 2022) and the International JSFest Instrumental Music Competition (Nov 2022).
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Yuki Negishi started playing the piano at the age of 5 in New York City. At the age of 10, she was accepted to The Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division as an honorary scholarship student in the class of the late Richard Fabre, who was a pupil of Rosina Lhevinne. Yuki has since worked with such eminent figures as the late Takahiro Sonoda, Christian Zacharias, the late Irina Zaritskaya, Dominique Merlet, Dr Peter Katin and Murray Perahia at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Amsterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music where she obtained her Masters Degree with distinction and Artist Diploma in 2006. At the age of 16, she was the youngest prize-winner at the Takahiro Sonoda Piano Competition and she was awarded the 2nd prize at the 2000 International Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Bucharest. Since coming to the UK in 2001, she has additionally won no less than 10 coveted prizes at the RCM and elsewhere. As a chamber musician, Yuki has collaborated with members of the London Mozart Players, the Orchestra of the Swan, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and regularly performs with the award-winning London Myriad Ensemble and multi-award-winning violinist Elly Suh.
Yuki has released a DVD from Sound Techniques in conversation with BBC presenter Andrew Green.
She has released her debut CD through the Quartz label in May 2022, including music by Chopin, Kapustin, the world-premiere recordings of Melanie Spanswick's "Enigma" written for Yuki in 2019, and Robert Mitchell's "Our Hearts Dance the Infinite (As the Giant Puya Blooms)" to unanimous reviews from Gramophone, International Piano Magazine and Record Geijutsu Japan. Another CD has been released in conjunction with the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation of unrecorded works by the Japanese composer Koichi Kishi, with violinist Yukiko Ishibashi in October 2022, by the Japanese label Mittenwald. Her latest release (May 2024) of Preludes by Arensky, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Gershwin has also been praised by Colin Clarke of “Classical Explorer”- “This is a wonderful disc, magnificently programmed and superbly played…nourishing for the soul.”
During the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, she performed for various online festivals including the AndraTuttoBene Festival Online, Absolute Classics Festival Online (which featured on ITV News and her 5 recitals have reached over 100K views), Piano Week Online Festival and CityMusic Live (8 recitals). Her "Piano Music by Women" series in June/July 2020 was chosen in the TOP 5 online performances for the week of 29 June alongside Wigmore recitals by Angela Hewitt and Mitsuko Uchida/Mark Padmore by PIANIST Magazine.
She also served as a jury member for the Sussex International Piano Competition four times consecutively since its inauguration in 2010 (including the most recent 2018 edition) alongside such distinguished pianists as Artur Pizarro (Leeds 1st prize 1990), Vanessa Latarche (RCM Head of Keyboard) and Idil Biret. Other competitions she has adjudicated include the Open Piano Competition (2012), the London Youth Piano Competition (2019, 2021-2023), Music and Stars Awards (2020 & 2021), the Artepiano International E-Competition (2021-2023), the International Competition of Music and Arts 2021, the Indonesia International Youth Music Olympics (April 2022) and the International JSFest Instrumental Music Competition (Nov 2022).
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Yuki Negishi started playing the piano at the age of 5 in New York City. At the age of 10, she was accepted to The Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division as an honorary scholarship student in the class of the late Richard Fabre, who was a pupil of Rosina Lhevinne. Yuki has since worked with such eminent figures as the late Takahiro Sonoda, Christian Zacharias, the late Irina Zaritskaya, Dominique Merlet, Dr Peter Katin and Murray Perahia at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Amsterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music where she obtained her Masters Degree with distinction and Artist Diploma in 2006. At the age of 16, she was the youngest prize-winner at the Takahiro Sonoda Piano Competition and she was awarded the 2nd prize at the 2000 International Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Bucharest. Since coming to the UK in 2001, she has additionally won no less than 10 coveted prizes at the RCM and elsewhere. As a chamber musician, Yuki has collaborated with members of the London Mozart Players, the Orchestra of the Swan, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and regularly performs with the award-winning London Myriad Ensemble and multi-award-winning violinist Elly Suh.
Yuki has released a DVD from Sound Techniques in conversation with BBC presenter Andrew Green.