Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada. Deeply committed to chamber music, Ms. Yoshioka is the founding member of the Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed annually in the school's FOCUS! Festival as well as with the ModernWorks!, Lower Eastside Ensemble for Contemporary Music and Continuum.Of a performance with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the New York Times wrote, Airi Yoshioka played the violin solo touchingly.
A native of Japan, Ms. Yoshioka came to the United States at the age of 12 and received her early training as a student of Honorary Distinction at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, where she received the Branford College Arts Award for outstanding contribution to the arts, M.M. and DMA from The Juilliard School. Summer festivals, attended include Meadowmount, Encore, Sarasota, Banff, and Aspen.
Educational outreach has been a vital aspect of Ms. Yoshiokas professional life through her work as a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic and the Lincoln Center Institute.
While at The Juilliard School, she won the concerto competition. Among her teachers and coaches have been Jorja Fleezanis, Glenn Dicterow, Joey Corpus, Stephen Clapp, Syoko Aki, Felix Galimir, Paul Kantor, Jerome Lowenthal, and Seymour Lipkin, as well as members of the Juilliard and Tokyo String Quartets.
She currently teaches at University of Maryland Baltimore County as an assistant professor of violin.
