Yurika Shima

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Yurika Cecilia Shima ( Japanese 志摩 ゆ り か , Shima Yurika ; born November 26, 1998 in Kobe ) is a Japanese violinist who has lived in Austria since 2007 .

Education and musical career

Even in her early childhood, Shima was fascinated by her mother making music on the violin as a hobby. At the age of four she got her first own instrument and was taught how to play the violin by the music professor Keiko Umetani . Her music teacher recognized the girl's extraordinary talent and recommended that she be sent to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna for further musical training in Austria . There she was accepted into the highly gifted program of the university in 2007 as a pupil of Marina Sorokowa and from 2010 attended the Piarist high school in the Josefstadt district of Vienna .

Even during her school days, Shima successfully took part in numerous national and international competitions, including in Kazakhstan , Italy and Poland . As a 12-year-old she won first prize at the 4th International Miroslaw Lawrynowicz Young Violinists Meeting in Płock , Poland. In April 2012 she won 3rd place in the Hertha Binder Prize for strings in the Josef Windisch competitions advertised at the Musikhochschule as part of the promotion of talented students and was also awarded a special prize for extraordinary achievements. In the same year she won first prize at the Austrian national competition “ prima la musica ”. In August 2013 she received a scholarship from the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein , where she was a student of Leonid Sorokow , the husband of her university professor Marina Sorokowa. In 2014 and 2016, Shima was a member of the national Austrian selection for the European-wide classical music competition Eurovision Young Musicians , but was ultimately not sent to the competition as a representative of Austria.

Shortly after Shima graduated from the Piaristengymnasium in 2018 , she successfully applied for admission to the diploma program at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Stefan Kamilarov, whose preparatory course she had attended since 2014. Shima has been studying the violin, piano and viola since October 2018. She applied for a scholarship in the Erasmus program to deepen her education at foreign conservatories.

Yurika Shima regularly gives concerts in Japan, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland. She is also involved in TEDxVienna in the area of social media .

Prizes and awards

  • 2008: 1st prize at the "Astana-Merey International Competition", Kazakhstan
  • 2009: 3rd prize at the "International Violin Competition Nedyalka Simeonova", Chaskowo , Bulgaria
  • 2010: 2nd prize at the "Concorso Europeo Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig"
  • 2010: 1st prize at the "Citta di Barletta International Violin Competition", Barletta , Italy
  • 2010: 1st place in the national competition “prima la musica”, Austria
  • 2011: “Gran Premio” at the “Concorso MusicArte”, Ozegna , Italy
  • 2011: 1st prize at the “4th International Miroslaw Lawrynowicz Young Violinists Meeting” in Płock, Poland
  • 2012: 3rd place at the "Hertha Binder Prize for Strings"
  • 2012: 1st place in the national competition “prima la musica”, Austria
  • 2013: 1st prize and best performance at the “Tartini International Competitions” in Piran , Slovenia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JOSEF WINDISCH COMPETITION 2012 - Promotion of talented students by the mdw. In: mdw.ac.at. April 28, 2012, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 12y girl violin 1st prize. In: japanbullet.com. May 13, 2011, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Competitions 2012 - Talent Promotion of the mdw. In: mdw.ac.at. 2012, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c scholarship holder Yurika Cecilia Shima. In: musikakademie.li. August 30, 2013, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ Anthony Granger: Austria: Young Musician Finalists Announced. In: eurovoix.com. March 14, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c EYM 2016 - EUROVISION YOUNG MUSICIANS: Participants in the national selection. In: tv.orf.at. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Portrait: Yurika Shima. In: altpiaristner.at. March 12, 2019, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e The candidates in the national selection. In: tv.orf.at. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  9. ^ Maksimiljana Ipavec: Tartini v spodbudo mladim. In: primorske.si. December 11, 2013, accessed on July 13, 2020 (Slovenian).
personal data
SURNAME Shima, Yurika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 志摩 ゆ り か (Japanese); Shima, Yurika Cecilia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese violinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Japan