Born in Nagasaki in 1997, Kanahi Yamashita received her musical training from her parents: guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita and composer Keiko Fujiie. She performed worldwide as a child with the Kazuhito Yamashita Family Quintet, making her solo debut at the age of 13 in international duo concerts with her father. She has lived in Berlin since 2015, where she studied with Professor T. Müller-Pering at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Professor Björn Colell at Nuremberg University of Music. She began her concert exam in 2023.
As a soloist, she has performed at festivals in Europe, Mexico, China, and Australia, enjoying international recognition. Since her solo tour in 2024, she has attracted particular attention in Japan, performing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. A first tour of the USA is planned for 2026. She is also an active chamber musician. In 2025, she won the Gerhard Vogt Chamber Music Competition as part of "Duo Musubi" with flutist Malin Sieberns. In 2026, she toured South America with violinist Mayumi Kanagawa as "Duo Lotos".
Her CD featuring works by C. Domeniconi was released in 2021. She has appeared on BR Klassik ("On Stage", 2023) and NHK-FM ("Recital Passio", 2024), among others. She is the winner of several international competitions, including the German Guitar Prize in 2019, and was a semi-finalist at the ARD Music Competition in Munich in 2017. She has held scholarships with the Yamaha Music Foundation and the Rohm Music Foundation, and has been a D'Addario Artist since 2021.
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