Emily Yabe

violin - viola

Emily Yabe obtained a Bachelor of Music at the Toho Gauken School of Music in her home town of Tokyo, followed by postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für musik Dresden with diplomas in Orchestral music and a Soloist diploma with Prof. Ivan Ženatý, which she completed in 2012.

During her studies in Tokyo, she began working with contemporary artists. In 2002 she received the Scholarship Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Course. In 2008 she received the special prize for the best interpretation of a 20th century work at the International "Queen Sophie Charlotte" Competition and in 2010 the DAAD Prize. She was also a scholarship holder at the Hellerau Academy for Experimental Music Theatre 2010/11.

Emily has participated in master classes with Vadim Gluzman, Ulf Hoelscher, Kevork Mardirossian, Miklós Perényi, Benjamin Schmid, Thomas Brandis, Ensemble Modern and ensemble recherche.

She has worked with numerous contemporary artists and composers, including Mark Andre, Saskia Bladt, Adriana Hölszky, Sven-Ingo Koch, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe and Manos Tsangaris, and has given world premieres in Europe and Asia.

She has appeared as a soloist at the Munich Biennale, ECLAT Festival, Tonlagen-Hellerau, SPOR Festival in Aarhus, rainy days-Festival de musiques nouvelles in Luxembourg, at the Semperoper (Semper Zwei), at the Staatsoper Berlin in "Abstract Pieces", at the Deutsche Oper in "Underline" and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in "Tonguecat" from the Munich Opera Festival.

She is also a member of the ensembles El Perro Andaluz and tooperative.