Yoshie’s Live Performance Video at YouTube
Yoshie's PV
The Spirit of the Wind
Night Improvisation
The Eternal Wind(Instrument ver.)
Dance in th Rain
HOTARUBI(Fireflies)
Good Night "OYASUMI" (E.Piano ver.)
All photos and movie by Mr.yabapapa
The Day All Ends
Lyric by Hikaru Nishikawa, Music by Yoshie Kubota, Movie by Ogawa
A native of Kyoto, Japan, Yoshie Kubota has lived in New York City since 1988. Now she lives in Baltimore,MD since 2006. Ms. Kubota has appeared as a soloist with orchestra in Japan under the batton of Mr. Yutaka Sado. She has appeared on Radio FM Osaka and performed in major cities in Japan, including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Chiba, Kochi and Kyoto. In the United States she has performed in CA, OH, DC, CT, WV, PA, NJ, MD, NY include at Lincoln Center. Yoshie has a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Mannes College of Music (New York City) in 1990. She also attended the Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy and Festival(Japan), Salzburg Music Festival(Austria) and Nice Summer Music Academy(France). Her teachers include Grant Johannesen, Toshiyuki Fukumoto, Tsugiko Oshibuchi, and Katsuko Fukumoto. Masterclasses with Edith Picht-Axenfeld (Japan), Jaques Rouvier (France). Yoshie is a member of a chamber group"Baltimore Canon" since 2006. She is an official accompanist and assistant faculty member at International Music Institute and Festival U.S.A. since 2006.
Yoshie started to compose her original music since 2006 spring and already made more than 20 pieces by now.
"Yoshie Kubota is a most musical performer, with a capacity to interpret, brilliantly, many styles of music. She comes equipped with a strong technique, a cultivated expression. A lovely person, into the bargain!"---Recommedation by Grant Johannesen: Well-known concert pianist
Press reviews:
"......salute to Yoshie Kubota, who played a pleasurable lunch-time recital of piano music of Mozart, Schumann and Beethoven...." by Peter G. Davis : New York Magazine (August 15, 1994)
Yoshie composed a song for the game called "Tales Runner" (Oct. 2009). This is the official Tales Runner Theme Song. Here is the Trailer
"The Eternal Wind (Instrument ver.)" is used for a movie "Finding Tonio" by Mirage Productions and this film will be screened in Hollywood coming on December 2008. ..
Hi! Yoshie, How have you been doing? It is a long silence, is not it? I just stop by say Hi!to you. Keep up your work and stay healthy! It will be another long silence again for a while.^^; love you.
Hello and thank you Yoshie, for adding me as your friend. I am healed as soon as I entered here. Your music has a such kind of the power with peaceful sounds.
to celebrate the launch my first week on MySpace Music, I have unlocked my four songs for FREE Downloading. These are my three chart topping Ambient SoundScapes and my latest Rock Instrumental "Space Rocks!" voted top song on WSVNRadio. Enjoy!