Gernot Adrion & Yuki Inagawa
Biography Gernot Adrion & Yuki Inagawa
Yuki Inagawa
Born in Sapporo (Japan), Yuki Inagawa received her first piano lessons when she was six, and later also studied voice. She studied piano at the Toho Gakuen Academy of Music in Tokyo, and pursued her studies at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. Early on, Yuki Inagawa garnered prizes at international piano and chamber music competitions; she has performed recitals in Japan, Hungary and Germany. She was the recipient of the Steinway Advancement Prize in 2003. As a soloist she has given very successful recitals in the major concert halls of Berlin, including the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus. Regular appearances in different line-ups in festivals and chamber music recitals, orchestral engagements (including many years with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra), along with coaching and accompaniment for a series of instrumentalists and choirs round off her multiple artistic activities. Since 2008 she has been teaching piano at Shostakovich Music School in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
Gernot Adrion
has held the post of Assistant Principal Viola in Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1996. Born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Upper Palatinate), he studied viola at Nuremberg Conservatory under the tutelage of Prof. Hans Kohlhase. He has won First Prize at a series of competitions: Jugend musiziert (the German national youth competition), IHK (Chamber of Commerce), the Dr. Drexel Competition (Nuremberg) and the German Conservatory Competition in Darmstadt. Adrion gathered orchestral experience in the German National Youth Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonic, the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), and in the Bamberg Symphony. He also cultivates a passion for chamber music. Since 2006 he has been playing together with Susanne Herzog and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg in the Gideon Klein Trio, an ensemble devoted to string trio repertoire from the Early Baroque to the 20th century. Since 2012 he has formed a piano/viola duo with Yuki Inagawa.
