SPECIAL EVENT
YASUSHI AND FRIENDS

Yasushi Ogura was born in Kyoto, Japan, and began his journey with the violin at the age of four. His chamber music debut, at the age of ten, was the Haydn Piano Trio. He subsequently graduated from Osaka College of Music. After Yasushi moved to the United States, his studies with Anne Crowden and chamber music with Colin Hampton were the beginning of a long musical career in the Bay Area.

Yasushi has been the Napa Valley Youth Symphony’s principal coach since the orchestra’s inception in 2003. He is the current concertmaster of Symphony Napa Valley and Pocket Opera, past concertmaster and soloist of the Napa Valley Symphony and Diablo Valley Ballet, and has performed as guest concertmaster with Berkeley Symphony, California Symphony, Santa Rosa and Modesto Symphonies. He performed as concertmaster for the series of sixteen Zarzuela performances at the Jarvis Conservatory. Yasushi often performs with San Francisco Ballet and is a regular member of Skywalker Symphony performing on numerous film and video soundtracks recorded at Skywalker Ranch. The San Francisco Classical Voice gave “special kudos to…Yasushi Ogura for his leadership” in their review of the Pocket Philharmonic performance of The Two Widows. Yasushi is currently teaching private violin students at the Jarvis Conservatory.