Eri Yamamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan and, after achieving her BA and MA with highest honours at the F. Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholar, she moved to London in 2017 to further her skills on the Professional Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music. Currently in the UK on an ‘Exceptional Talent’ visa, she is also an official piano accompanist in the Strings Department of the Royal Academy of Music.
Eri has won numerous prizes and awards, including becoming the Finalist of the NY F. Liszt Competition, and had a Grand Final at the Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage (for Concerto) and the Weill Recital Hall (for Solo) of the Carnegie Hall(NY), the membership of the Liszt Society as became the Finalist of the Liszt Society Piano Competition (UK), Absolute First Prize in the ‘Citta di Barletta’ (Italy), Second prize in the G. Gershwin Int. Piano Competition (NY, US), the Rosalia de Castro Special Prize incl. CD recording prize in the International Piano Competition ‘City of Vigo’ (Spain), Second Prize in the Putra International Piano Competition (Malaysia), First in the ‘Grand Prize Virtuoso’ International Music Competition (Salzburg), Silver prize in WPTA Finland, and other honours throughout Europe and Asia.
She has performed at the Chopin Birthday Festival in Warsaw, the Stipendium Hungaricum Ceremony (attended by the Hungarian Prime Minister) in Budapest, Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Summer Festival (London), the Wiener Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Blue Rose Room in Tokyo, the Liszt Hungary Cultural Institute in Tokyo, the Hungarian National Event - Night of Museum Event Concert (Budapest), St. Paul’s Church Bedford, St Giles in the Field church London, Westminster Music Library London, the Pashkin House London, on FM Yokohama and FM Tokyo Radio, Abbey Road Studio (London), with Szolnok Symphony orchestra with conducting by Masahiro Izaki, Anima Musicae chamber orchestra, and Mihail Jara Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra with conducting by Ovidiu Balan, to name just few.
Eri also enjoys performing as a chamber musician, having given duo recitals with the clarinettist Richard Stolzman, and performing in a violin and piano duo on Hungarian Radio, as well as live appearances in London at Marylebone Parish Church and the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room. She was awarded the 1st prize with the cellist Goncalo Pires in the Int. London Classical Music Competition (UK), the 3rd Prize with Trio Primo in the CPO Int. Music Competition the Chamber category.
I'm looking forward to performing with you for audition, exam (ABRSM exam too), and recording!
Fees
£ 55.00 Pounds Per Hour
The travel expenses will be charged additional. (From central London)