Kyoko Yonemoto is widely considered to be one of the most promising young violinists of today.

Laureate in some of the world’s finest violin competitions, Kyoko Yonemoto was the youngest prize winner ever at the Paganini Competition 1997 in Genova, Italy, where she was awarded the Enrico Costa Memorial Prize. She also has won prizes in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the Fritz Kriesler Competition in Vienna, as well as winning top prize in a Japanese National Competition in 2001 and the Paganini Competition in Moscow in November, 2006.

Born in Tokyo in 1984, she started learning the violin at the age of three and gave her first public orchestra concert in Tokyo at the age of thirteen, performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto with great passion. She studied with Akuri Suzuki at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and was then mentored by Yoshio Unno. She gave her first recital in Tokyo in 1998. ?

? Already a rising star in her home country where she has performed regularly with the major orchestras and conductors, Kyoko Yonemoto also performs outside of Japan. She has given recitals and has performed with international orchestras across Europe, including in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy. She has also had the honor of collaborating with the Maestros Myung-whun Chung, Junichi Hirokami, Kenichiro Kobayashi and Eliahu Inbal and many others.

Kyoko Yonemoto moved to Paris in 2003 to study with Gerard Poulet. Since 2004 she has been studying under Boris Belkin at the Conservatory Maastricht and at his master classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

In the 2006-2007 seasons, she has engagements in Italy, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Japan and Spain.