Yukiko (Dr. Yuki), a native of Tokyo, Japan is a Registered Suzuki Piano Teacher and a Nationally  Certified Teacher of Music. In Japan, she performed weekly on television and was a Teacher Trainer and Performer for the YAMAHA Music Foundation. The aspirationn to improve her English  fluency brought her to the University of Tennessee. It was there that the desire to share her  passion for music, and the piano, rekindled her interest in piano pedagogy. For 20 years, as a  full time instructor of piano in the Suzuki Piano program at The University of Memphis, a large  number of her students won prizes and awards from both state and regional competitions, she  pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance including minor areas in  Chamber Music and Piano Pedagogy where her dissertation was awarded the Graduate  Document Award. 

Currently, she is teaching piano performance at Rhodes College while also conducting private  studio lessons for students as young as 3.