Mari Yoshinaga Percussion
Present
SCMS Debut: 2024 Summer Festival
Mari Yoshinaga is a Seattle-based percussionist who plays regularly in the Pacific Northwest. She has performed recently at Seattle Chamber Music Society, Seattle Japanese Garden, On The Boards, Emerald City Music, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and VancouverRecital Society. Upcoming local engagements include the Seattle Chamber Society Concert Truck, Music on the Strait (Port Angeles), Northwest Folklife Festival, and Central Washington University. As a member of new music ensembles such as arx duo and The Percussion Collective, Mari has performed with Boise Philharmonic, Curtis Orchestra, Lake George Music FestivalOrchestra, Louisville Orchestra and Symphony Tacoma. She has worked with percussion and composition students at Princeton University, Boston Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, Greenwich Conservatory (UK), and Musashino Conservatory (Tokyo). Mari has served as a faculty member of the Young Artist Summer Program at the Curtis Institute of Music. Mari was born in Kagoshima, Japan. She began studying piano at age three, marimba at age five, euphonium at ten, cello at eleven, and percussion at twelve. She moved to the United States to attend The Curtis Institute of Music where she earned her bachelor’s degree, and later she earned her master’s degree at Yale School of Music.