Concert pianist, collaborative artist and teacher, at home on stages from Chicago to Bangkok.
Concert Pianist · Collaborative Artist · Teacher
Yusuke Komura is a concert pianist, collaborative artist and teacher whose training has taken him from Japan to New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. He was the first Japanese pianist to earn a Bachelor's degree with Honours from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, and went on to the College of Charleston, Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Winner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison concerto competition, he performed Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor in a performance broadcast on Wisconsin radio, and was selected for the Midwest International Piano Competition. As a collaborative pianist he has worked with instrumentalists and singers in opera productions and recitals, and has taken part in master classes with Martin Katz, Gilbert Kalish and Marian Hahn, among others.
From 2017 to 2024 he was Chief Piano Instructor at Siam Music Yamaha Thailand, where his students won national and international prizes and performed at Carnegie Hall. Today he gives master classes, serves on competition juries, and is a committee member of the Bangkok Chopin Society and a founding member of the Thailand International Piano Festival.
Yusuke Komura began playing the piano at the age of six. His training has taken him from Japan to New Zealand, Singapore and the United States, and his career now spans performance, collaboration, composition and teaching.
In 2001 he moved to New Zealand, where he studied piano with Dr. Thomas Hecht and also learned the harpsichord. He graduated from Paraparaumu College with first-class honours in Music, then became the first Japanese pianist to earn a Bachelor's degree (Honours) from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore.
He went on to spend two years at the College of Charleston for an Artist's Certificate, completed a Master of Music at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts, and in 2016 received his Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Christopher Taylor.
As a soloist, he won an in-school competition and toured the greater Chicago area with solo recitals in 2010. In 2013 he won the University of Wisconsin-Madison concerto competition and performed Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, broadcast on Wisconsin radio together with an interview. He was also selected to take part in the Midwest International Piano Competition.
Yusuke performs internationally as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, having studied chamber music with Dr. Thomas Hecht, Enrique Graf, Meng-Chieh Liu and Martha Fischer. In 2009 he won a piano assistantship at Roosevelt University, working with instrumentalists and singers in diction classes, opera productions and vocal recitals under Dr. Dana Brown. He has also taken part in masterclasses with Marian Hahn, Peter Takács, Hugues Leclère, Gilbert Kalish and Martin Katz.
He composes and arranges for piano and other instruments, with a recent focus on folk and popular songs, and presents an annual concert of his own arrangements.
From 2017 to 2024 he was Chief Piano Instructor at the headquarters of Siam Music Yamaha Thailand, overseeing teaching quality and collaborating on performances, competitions and examinations. His students have won prizes at national and international competitions and have performed at Carnegie Hall.
Today Yusuke performs, gives masterclasses and serves on competition juries internationally. He is a committee member of the Bangkok Chopin Society and a founding member of the Thailand International Piano Festival.
From the concerto stage to the opera pit, from his own arrangements to the next generation of pianists.Mostly Classical Performing Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts, USA
College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore
Mostly Classical Performing Arts brings Yusuke to concert series, festivals, conservatories, competitions and opera productions.
