Kanahi Yamashita, born in Nagasaki in 1997, began touring the USA, Europe, and Asia at an early age as part of the Kazuhito Yamashita Family Quintet, making her solo debut at 13 during worldwide duo concerts with her father. Since 2015 she has lived in Berlin, studying at the University of the Arts Berlin with Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering, earning her Bachelor’s (2018) and Master’s (2021) degrees with distinction, and is now pursuing her Konzertexamen with Prof. Björn Colell at the Nuremberg University of Music.

Yamashita’s close musical collaboration with Carlo Domeniconi in Berlin led to a 2021 CD of his selected guitar works. She was a semifinalist at the 66th ARD Music Competition in Munich (2017), won the German Guitar Prize in Darmstadt (2019) and 2nd prize at the 10th International Martinez Guitar Competition Iserlohn (2021), and performs regularly as soloist with orchestras including the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Sources:

• https://siccasguitars.com/blogs/guitarists/kanahi-yamashita
• https://kanahi.de/