Renowned Japanese pianist Yukine Kuroki set for Thomastown performance

Gifted Japanese pianist Yukine Kuroki is touring Ireland this spring, and will perform for Music in Kilkenny Thomastown Concert Hall on March 16.

Kuroki won both Liszt Utrecht Competition and Dublin International Piano Competition in 2022. Since then she has travelled all over the world and 2025 will see her play her debuts in play Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Germany’s Munich Gasteig and at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival.

Her mastery of the instrument prompted leading Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska to describe her as ‘a true poet at the piano, who can make you cry with a single note’.
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Kuroki started playing the piano at the tender age of three and first performed with an orchestra when she was seven years old. Since then she has been performing all over the world, including sold-out debuts with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.

Running from March 7-16, her tour kicks off in Sligo, and continues to Cork, Offaly, Dublin, Newry, Waterford, Westmeath and Kilkenny.

A must-see for classical music fans, the programme will include Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and a selection of Transcendental Études by Lizst, as well as music by Rachmaninoff, Kapustin, and Tokuyama.
Kuroki will also perform Fantasia on Port na bPúcaí by Dr Fergus Johnston, which was specially commissioned by Music Network for the tour.

CONCERT HALL
The Kilkenny concert will take place on Sunday, March 16 at 3pm in Thomastown, Concert Hall.
Tickets €5-28 (booking fees may apply). Visit musicnetwork.ie/whats-on/yukine-kuroki.