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Diana Yukawa

Diana Yukawa (ダイアナ 湯川, Daiana Yukawa) is an Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two successful solo albums with BMG Japan. Following Diana's debut album, she was acknowledged as one of the country's top 10 artists.

Early life

Diana Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month after the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster killed her father.[1][2][3][4] Yukawa has lived in the United Kingdom since she was 2 months old and began learning violin when she was 5 years old.[2][5]

Career

Diana became an overnight child star after playing a memorial service for the Japan Airlines Flight 123 victims. Media in the country announced her as a music sensation and her ability has been recognised with numerous rewards such as the prestigious International Foundation for Arts and Culture and being appointed as soloist with the Japan Philharmonic.

Her Japanese debut album ‘La Campanella’ released in 2000 on BMG RCA became a No.1 best seller and was released in the UK under the title ‘Elegy’ in 2001 to rave reviews including Classic FM's Henry Kelly. On the CD is a moving interpretation of "Ue o Muite Aruko." Better known overseas as "Sukiyaki", it was made popular by Kyu Sakamoto, who died with Yukawa's father on the Boeing 747-SR46 used for JAL123.[2] Her second album – works by Saint-Saëns with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was released in 2001. Diana has now finished recording her much anticipated third album, The Butterfly Effect (Album) and has spent the time developing her own sound that is different from her two previous classical albums and is being release on 21st October 2009.

She began learning the violin at 5 years of age and through her colourful career to date has performed solo at such auspicious venues as St. James Piccadilly, Cadogan Hall, to 60’000 at a Khalifa Stadum in Qatar and to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl. Diana has also collaborated with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductors Robin Stapleton and Grant Llewellyn as well as other musicians including Jeff Beck, Paul Oakenfold, Japanese pop sensations Deen, Craig Armstrong and featured as a special guest for a PBS show which being broadcast across the US and Canada throughout 2009.

Personal life

Yukawa is an ambassador of Global Angels of which Molly Bedingfield is founder and CEO. Daniel Bedingfield is one of the International Executive Directors. Global Angels.

As of 2008 Yukawa resides in London, UK and is from the same family as Hideki Yukawa, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics.

Discography

Albums

Album #1 Information
Elegy AKA La Campanella
  • Released - September, 2000 in Japan & 2001 in UK
  • Album Chart Positions:-#1 Japan
Album #2 Information
Concerto
  • Released - August, 2001 in Japan
  • Album Chart Positions
Album #3 Information
The Butterfly Effect (The Butterfly Effect (Album))
  • Released - October, 2009 starting in Japan
  • Album Chart Positions:- TBC

References

  1. ^ Violinist Shirks of her tragic Image. The Japan Times.
  2. ^ a b c Looking up so tears won't fall. The Japan Times.
  3. ^ Playing the Victim. Time.
  4. ^ Air crash banker's girls win fight for his name. The Daily Telegraph.
  5. ^ Unfinished symphony The Daily Telegraph.
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