Yumiko Oshima-Ryan
Biography Yumiko Oshima-Ryan
Yumiko Oshima-Ryan
is a professor of music at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, Minnesota.
She is an active performer of both solo and collaborative works, and awards include first place in the Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition and second place in the International Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition. Since 1995 she has incorporated contemporary Japanese piano works into her repertoire, and has performed these pieces internationally (Tokyo, Toronto and San Juan), including world premieres of new works by Japanese composers.
Her first recording From Afar – Contemporary Japanese Piano Music was released by Naxos in 2014 (9.70197). She is a 2017 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. A native of Japan, Oshima-Ryan graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.
Her piano teachers have included Eunice Norton (a pupil of Artur Schnabel), Eugene Pridonoff, Richard Syracuse, Menahem Pressler, Jerome Rose and Satoko Tokumaru.
