Rinko Yoshino Profile

★Brief Personal History

[Profession]

Pianist
Teacher of Music and English (for schools and private)
Translator and Guide for "Making your own Shakuhachi" Workshop

[Education]

Language-Culture Course, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mie University, Tsu, JAPAN (2013, Received a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities degree)
Piano Interpretation Course, Malmo Academy of Music, Lund University, Malmo, SWEDEN (2000)
Piano Interpretation Course, The Graduate School of Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, JAPAN (1997, Received a Master of Arts degree)

[Activities]

Rinko started her professional career as a pianist in Canada in 2001, then in Belgium, and proceeded to work in Japan. She is periodically invited to Poland for concert activities and making presentation about Japan.
Rinko has a 15-year career as a school teacher. Her lessons always attract the attention of her students due to their "uniqueness" based on what she herself has experienced abroad.

[Where Has She been?]

Austria / Belgium / Bulgaria / Canada / China / Croatia / Czech Rep. / Denmark / Finland / France / Germany / Hungary / Italy / Luxembourg / Netherlands / Norway / Poland / Slovakia / Slovenia / Sweden / Switzerland / Thailand / Turkey / U.K / U.S.A / Vatican City / Vietnam

*bold = where she lived for a year or more

Japanese Dance Tenarai-ko — Japanese Dance

[Hobbies]

Japanese Dance
Calligraphy
Cooking
Traveling
Swimming

Japanese Dance, Rinko and Alicja — with Alicja Molitorys

with Shakuhachi Master Taro MIURA — with Master Taro MIURA

★As a Translator

Rinko is an experienced translator at "Make your own Shakuhachi bamboo flute" workshop.

It is a valuable experience for people from abroad to come to Yokkaichi and make their own shakuhachi, beginning with just a piece of bamboo, under the guidance of master Taro MIURA.

★As a Musician

Rinko organizes concerts for a singer from Canada every year. She also sends a Japanese singer to Montreal every autumn for the International Vocal Concerts: "Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques"
Rinko is frequently invited to Poland where the excellent flutist Alicja Molitorys is active. They have been performing as "Duo Tori" or Two Birds all over Poland and Japan since 2012.

Left: "Diamond-dust Night" Composed and performed by Rinko Yoshino

Right: TV News in Poland, 2019