Diana Yukawa

Contemporary Solo Violinist

Diana Yukawa is an award winning solo violinist. Following her 2 successful solo albums with BMG Japan, Diana has signed to Sony Music Japan as an international artist. Diana’s new album “The Butterfly Effect” was released on 21st October 2009 in Japan and comprises a new modern sound for the violin, far removed from her previous classical albums.

At only 24, Diana has lead an extraordinary life. Born in Tokyo to an English ballet dancer and a Japanese banker just 3 weeks after the 1985 Japan Airlines disaster that took her father’s life, Diana has crossed cultural boundaries in her personal life and is pushing to cross even further in her professional life as a talented and much celebrated violinist.

Diana has lived in London her whole life but made an enormous impact in Japan, becoming an overnight child star after playing a memorial service for her father and the JAL victims. Media in the country announced her as a music sensation.

In the time since the release of her first two albums Diana has been developing her own unique, distinctive sound for the violin. Teaming up with renowned producer, Andy Wright (Massive Attack, Jeff Beck) – Diana has created a brand new, innovative, modern sound.

The Butterfly Effect is a groundbreaking album featuring 13 original tracks and 1 cover. Through the years since being discovered by BMG at age 13, Diana has found her passion and natural talent for creating her own music resulting in this novel album.

Listeners of The Butterfly Effect are taken on a wonderful journey through the varied pace of the tracks, each of which are held together with a certain magical ambience, uniting them all perfectly.

A track from Diana’s album also features on the soundtrack for the newly released film, Shizumanu Taiyo which is Japans biggest budget feature film.

Diana’s colourful career to date has seen her perform at many prestigious venues. More recently she has dazzled audiences with her new music at venues including to 60’000 people at a Khalifa Stadum in Qatar, to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl and at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. Diana’s new music is also taking her on a fantastic collaborative journey which includes the likes of Jeff Beck, Paul Oakenfold and Craig Armstrong.

Diana began learning the violin at 5 years of age studied with the great master, Ruggiero Ricci, as well as such distinguished Professors as Maurice Hasson, Hu Kun, Rodney Friend and Natasha Boyarsky.

Diana’s ambition as a musician is to demonstrate that the violin is a diverse instrument, capable of fitting into a wide range of music genres. Diana will once and for all break the common misconception that the violin is purely a classical instrument.

Artists website  http://www.dianayukawa.co.uk/