Yu Kurata

Yu Kurata

Yu Kurata studied with Trevor Wye, Clifford Benson and at the Royal Academy of Music in London with William Bennett, as well as with Michel Moragues in Paris. She has been a First Prize Winner in major Japanese competitions and Markneukirchen International Competition. Ms Kurata is an active recitalist including radio broadcasting and she has also appeared with the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as a soloist. Ms. Kurata is a member of the Flute Quintet ‘’The Bluebelles’’ and has been a principal Flutist in the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan.