Yumiko Oshima-Ryan is an active performer in both solo and collaborative works. 

Her awards include first place in the Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition and second in the International Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition. 

 

Since 1995 she has been incorporating contemporary Japanese piano works into her repertoire.  She has performed these works nationally and internationally, including world premieres of new works by Japanese composers. 

 

Her recordings "Piano Works for the Left Hand - Takashi Yoshimatsu" and  “From Afar,” Japanese contemporary piano work, were published by the Naxos Music Library. "Piano Works for the Left Hand" was selected as a special edition in the August 2022 issue of Record Geijutsu （レコード芸術）, a top music review magazine in Japan.

 

A native of Japan, Yumiko graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.  Her piano teachers include Eunice Norton (a pupil of Arthur Schnabel), Menahem Pressler, Eugene Pridonoff, Richard Syracuse, Jerome Rose, and Satoko Tokumaru.

 

Yumiko joined the Music Faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2004. She currently teaches private piano lessons, keyboard skills, core and elective courses for music majors.