Erina Yashima (born

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) is a German

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. She is currently Assistant Conductor of the

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. Yashima was born in

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, West Germany, to Japanese immigrants. She received her first lesson in conducting at the age of 14, while studying under Bernd Goetzke at the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted, a program of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She then studied at the

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. In February 2016, she became the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice at the

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, working with music director

Riccardo Muti Riccardo Muti (; born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He is current music director of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the ...

for three seasons before joining the Philadelphia Orchestra in April 2019.

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Erina Yashima biography
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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century German conductors (music) German women conductors (music) Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra Music directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra German people of Japanese descent People from Heilbronn Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin alumni Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni German expatriates in the United States {{Germany-conductor-stub