RinoYoshimoto

Rino Yoshimoto, born in Kobe in 2003, has performed in many of the world’s major halls, among them Carnegie Hall, the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as in leading venues across Europe and Asia.

Most recently she won Second Prize at the 58th Premio Paganini in Genoa in 2025. Earlier distinctions include prizes at the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (2024), the 10th Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna (Second Prize, 2022), the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (2020) and the 16th Padova International Music Competition. In 2025 she joined the artists supported by the Fondation Gautier Capuçon.

As a soloist she has appeared with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In Japan she has played with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kansai Philharmonic, among others. An invitation from the Vienna Chamber Orchestra took her on a tour of Spain, where her performances were acclaimed by the critics.

Recitals and chamber music projects have taken her to Japan, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Russia and the USA. In 2026 she was a soloist at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo.

At the age of fourteen she came to Vienna to study with Michael Frischenschlager. At seventeen she was admitted to the class of Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth, where she graduated with highest distinction in 2025. She is currently completing the Artist Diploma in chamber music there with Miguel da Silva, Corina Belcea and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. Her earlier teachers include Masako Kida, Yoshio Unno, Gérard Poulet and Mauro Iurato.

Rino Yoshimoto plays the 1736 Stradivari “Muntz”, generously provided by the Sasakawa Music Foundation.