Yurie Mitsuhashi is a violinist and educator based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is Associate Concertmaster of the Colorado Springs Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.

Mitsuhashi has performed at festivals throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., the MostArts Festival in Alfred, New York, and the Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Her performances have also taken her to prominent New York venues including Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, The Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Merkin Hall.

She can be heard on several albums, including The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 81 with pianist Piers Lane on Hyperion Records, for which she served as concertmaster. The recording reached No. 1 on the UK Specialist Classical Chart. She also contributed to Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Caprice Russe on Sorel Classics, as well as Buried Alive and Piano Protagonists: Music for Piano and Orchestra on Bridge Records. She made her solo radio debut as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award on NPR’s From the Top.

Mitsuhashi holds a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music, and a Master of Music in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies from Bard College.

Beyond performance, Mitsuhashi’s artistic interests extend to the history, craft, and material culture of musical instruments. She has studied bowmaking and repair, deepening her interest in the relationship between musicians, instruments, and the craftspeople who create them.