ERI
YAMAMOTO
“Yamamoto is excellent in producing tones with lyrical melody lines. She has mastered her own modes of expression through her great facility in various piano techniques.”
– Tami Nodaira, “Ongaku no Tomo” magazine, 2018
“Eri had impeccable technique, of course, but what I found most satisfying and encouraging was her sensitivity to disparate. She found orchestral colors in the keyboard and most importantly allowed her instrument to breathe phrase, and sing with my clarinet for a real feeling of chamber music conversations. “
– Richard Stoltzman, the internationally known clarinetist
Born in Tokyo, Japan. Moving to Budapest, at 16, as an Rotary Youth Exchange Program student, Eri Yamamoto then embarked on her BA as a student of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in Piano. Continuing on with her studies, she was awarded her MA with the highest honors, as a Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship receiving student, organized by the Hungarian government, under the guidance of Nádor György, Orsolya Szabó. After she graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, she moved to London to further her skills at the Professional Diploma course of the Royal Academy of Music, London, under the guidance of Rustem Hayroudinoff. Currently she has an Exceptional Talent – Promise visa, UK artist visa, is accompanist in the Strings Department of the Royal Academy of Music and is on the piano faculty at Piano Lessons London and serves as a guest instructor at Piano Lessons Tokyo when she is in Tokyo.
2020 2nd Prize, Putra International Piano Competition
2020 Special Mentioned, Aevea Piano Prize
2020 Silver Prize, WPTA Finland International Piano Competition
2020 Played the CD in the FM Tokyo [The TRAD], Radio, Japan
2019 Honorable Mention, Iseshima International Competition, Japan
2019 Recital at Santory Hall, Blue Rose, Supported by British Council Tokyo, Japan
2019 Charity Concert and Talk Show with Rio Hirai (MC), Nagoya Japan
2019 Duo Recital, Supported by British Council, Yamaguchi, Japan
2019 Solo recital in the Senkawa Fix Hall, supported by Hungarian Embassy in Japan
Japan Hungary 150 yeas relation anniversary, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Charity Concert for Fukushima,
the Japanese Minister for Reconstruction attended, Tokyo Japan
2019 CD Recording at the Estudios Mans, Spain
2019 Duo Megumi-Eri Concert at the St. Marylebone Parish Church, London
2019 Performing as Duo Megumi-Eri at the Elgar Room, Royal Albart Hall, London
2019 First prize in the Chamber cat., International Virtuoso Competition, London
2018 Performing at the Takashimaya Salon Special Concert by Takashimaya
2018 Appeared the review of the concert on the Ongaku no Tomo, magazine
2018 Solo recital and Chopin Concerto with string quartet in Tokyo, and Kyoto
2018 Final Recital of RAM, Duke’s hall, New Rictal Hall, London, UK
2018 "Rosalia de Castro" award, International Piano Competition "city of vigo", Spain
2017 Performing Piano Concerto with the Szolnok Symphonic Orchestra,
Conducted by Masahiro Izaki, directed by Akira Senju, Hungary
2017 Appear in the Japanese Magazine ”Act 4”, Japan
2017 Performing Piano Concerto with Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra
2017 Performing chamber, Violin duo on the Hungarian radio, Hungary
2017 Performing at the Bartok Memorial House, Budapest, Hungary
2016 First prize and gala concert prize, International Virtuoso Competition, Salzburg
2016 First prize, International Music Competition “Euterpe”, Corato, Italy
2016 Performing at the Kioicho Salon Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Performing with Richard Stolzman, clarinet in Tokyo, Japan
2016 Performing at the young talent in the music collection series, Hungary
2016 Performing at the Chopin Birthday Concerts Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Performing at the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Ceremony
the Hungarian Prime Minister, Orban Viktor attended, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Absolute First prize and special concert prize, International Piano Competition
“Citta di Barletta”, Italy
2015 Awarded prize, Juliusz Zarebski International Competition, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Awarded prize, JILA Music Competition, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Second prize, International Piano Competition “Piano Talents” Milan, Italy
2012-2014 Performing at the Rotary International Gala ceremony, Budapest, Hungary
Studied under the guidance of Nádor György, Julian Jacobson, Orsolya Szabó, Graf Zsuzsanna, Rustem Hayroudinoff. Attending master classes by Pavel Gililov – International Mozarteum Summer Academy, Cyprien Katszaris, the Lake Como International Piano Academy / Summer Festival – Stanislav Ioudenitch, William Grant Nabore, Alvin Chow, Selected as Perticipant the Eppan Piano Academy 2020.