BBC Introducing Classical Artist - Yume Fujise is a Japanese violinist currently living in

London. Recently she has been appearing live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune on numerous

occasions and has performed in major international venues, such as the Wigmore Hall,

Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Suntory Hall Tokyo and Forbidden City

Hall Beijing.

Yume is an alumni at the Yehudi Menuhin School and University of Arts & Music in Graz

Austria, where she studied with Lutsia Ibragimova and Boris Kuschnir. Yume completed her

Bachelor of Music, Masters of Performance and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of

Music, London (RCM) with Mark Messenger and Alina Ibragimova on an ABRSM full

scholarship. During her time at the RCM, Yume won the 2014 and 2018 Violin Competition

and 2015 Concerto Competition and 2017 Concerto Competition. In 2021, she was selected

as a City Music Foundation artist.

Yume performs regularly as soloist and has appeared alongside orchestras such as the

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, Hague Philharmonic

Orchestra, Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Kingston Chamber Orchestra, Royal

College of Music Philharmonic and Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Yume

performed Brahms Violin Concerto under the baton of Maxim Vengerov and performed in

the presence of HRH Prince of Wales. In 2020, Yume was set to make her BBC Proms

Debut alongside Nicola Benedetti playing Bach Double Concerto with the Les Violons du

Roy.

As well as performing solo, she is an avid chamber musician. She is a returning artist at the

Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Rolle, Switzerland since 2017. And is also a member

of the 12 Ensemble based in London. Yume is currently a member of the Kleio Quartet,

recently described by Alina Ibragimova as ‘a wonderfully creative group of musicians who

bring assuredness and freshness to everything they play’. In chamber music, Yume has

collaborated artists such as – Nobuko Imai, Sadao Harada, Christian Teztlaff, Alina

Ibragimova, Doric Quartet, Miguel da Silva, Pamela Frank, Nicola Benedetti, Mari

Samuelson, Max Richter and Johnny Greenwood.

Yume plays on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1868 which has been generously loaned to

her by her generous sponsor, Masahiro Suzuki.