Yoko is a kindergarten teacher in Japan. She started playing piano at age four and stopped in high school. After taking an MS at Indiana University, she has worked in the social science fields. From 2005 she took a piano amateur summer program at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and at Mannes College in New York City. From 2009 she participated in various international amateur piano competitions: Paris, Boston, Berlin, Texas, and Warsaw. In 2017 she performed the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, in Bulgaria. In 2024 she performed the Mozart Concerto No. 23 in Vienna.

“I always enjoy playing the piano.”