The 17th Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition
Bronze Prize : Yukine Kuroki (Student at Showa Graduate School of Music)

Yukine Kuroki first performed with an orchestra when she was seven years old. She has performed in concerts in Japan, Europe, and other countries. In May 2022, she won the First Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition as the first Japanese. In September of the same year, she has won the Gold Prize in the Liszt Utrecht. In this year March 2023, Yukine Kuroki won First Prize at the Artur Rubinstein International Piano. She has won the Gold Prize in the Professional category at the International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA, Silver Prize in the Superior Grade, Gold Prize in the G Grade, and the Yasuko Fukuda Prize (1st Prize) at the PTNA Competition. She has won the Grand Prize at the International Balys Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists and Violinists (Lithuania), First Prize in the Hanoi International Piano Competition (Vietnam), the First Prize at the Astana Piano Passion International Festival of Classical Music and Competition for Young Pianists (Kazakhstan), and the Most Promising Artist Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition. She has won the Iwatani Tokiko Foundation’s Foundation for Youth Prize.

She has won the Kanjani Eight’s The Mozart No. 1 Music King Decision Match of Nippon television Network corporation (won two consecutive) . She has performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo New City Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) , the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra ,the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Philharmonic of Astana, the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, and the Teatro Giglio Showa Orchestra, and others. She has been invited to perform not only in Japan but abroad, including international music festivals in Europe and elsewhere. She has received the Chiba City Arts and Culture New Artist Award, the Chiba Prefecture Education Encouragement Award, the Chiba Prefectural Assembly Children and Students Award, and the Chiba City Commendation for Excellence in Education, Culture and Sports for five consecutive years. She is a graduate of Showa University of Music. She is currently a second-year student in the master’s program of Showa Graduate School of Music and a student at Showa Piano Art Academy. She is studying under Fumiko Eguchi.