Do you need a piano teacher who speaks English? 

Rinko YOSHINO is here to help you!

New: Japanese Language Lessons Online (May 2020 - )

New: Music Lessons Online (April 2020 - )

Please contact Rinko for more information at:

r_yoshino@hotmail.com   

or call to:  080-1607-2547

★Brief Personal History

Rinko Yoshino studied piano interpretation at Kunitachi College of Music, The Graduate School of Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, and received a Master of Arts degree.

Then she was admitted at Malmo Academy of Music, Lund University in Sweden.

She started her professional career as a pianist in Canada in 2001, and proceeded to work in Japan.

★Main Musical Activities

One of Rinko's major works is organizing concerts.

For example, she invites a singer from Canada every year. She also sends a Japanese singer to Montreal every autumn for the International Vocal Concerts: "Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques" 

At the same time, Rinko is periodically invited to Poland where the excellent flutist Alicja Molitorys is active. The two have been performing as "Duo Tori" or "Two Birds" in Poland and in Japan since 2012.

Left: "Diamond Dust Night" Composed and Performed by Rinko

Right: "Yagibushi" fl: Alicja Molitorys / piano & arrangement: Rinko

★As a School Teacher

Rinko has been teaching music and English at high schools and junior high schools in Yokkaichi since 2004. She is popular among her students.

In Poland, she often makes presentation about Japanese calligraphy and Japanese school life, which the young students enjoy very much.

Moreover, she has played Japanese music with the talented students at Music School in  Jaworzno (Poland) several times. 

TV News: Student Concert at Jaworzno Music School, Poland 2019

[Piano and Other Lessons]

In April 2018, Rinko Yoshino opened a course in:

Piano / Solfege / Music Theory

Lessons are held at:

1-52-16 Sasagawa, Yokkaichi, Mie-pref.  (Parking is provided.)

Since April 2020, Lessons Online are available!  Ask Rinko for details.

- Fees for Piano Lessons -

Children under the second grade of elementary school

●30 min / 3 lessons / month : 6,000 yen

●30 min / 4 lessons / month : 8,000 yen

Students over the third grade of elementary school, and Adults 

[Single Lessons]

●30 min / 1 lesson : 3,000 yen

●50 min / 1 lesson : 5,000 yen

[Regular Lessons]

●30 min / 3 lessons / month : 8,000 yen

●30 min / 4 lessons / month : 10,000 yen

●50 min / 3 lessons / month : 14,000 yen

●50 min / 4 lessons / month : 18,000 yen

The first trial lesson is free.

Lessons must be cancelled one day before.

- Fees for Solfege / Music Theory Lessons -

People of all ages

●40 min / 1 lesson : 3,000 yen

Students can decide the number of lessons.

The first trial lesson is free.

Lessons must be cancelled one day before.

English - Japanese Translator at Shakuhachi Making Workshop

Rinko Yoshino is an experienced translator about Shakuhachi  (or bamboo flute) making workshop.  The pictures below show two people who visited Yokkaichi and made their own shakuhachi from the very beginning with its master Taro MIURA in October 2019.

Rinko organizes such workshops or other activities mainly related to art, and looks after you as an translator or a guide.

Feel free to ask any questions!  

For more details, send an email to:  r_yoshino@hotmail.com   

or call to:  080-1607-2547

In case you have no reply from Rinko within three days after sending your message, please email her one more time, or call her.