Yuki Rodrigues was born in Osaka, in a home where silence carried music within it. The daughter of a Portuguese father and a Japanese mother, she grew up between two worlds that, from an early age, learned to speak to one another through the piano. When she arrived in Portugal in 1989, she carried this dual heritage with her like a luminous secret in her hands.

Still very young, even before completing her higher education, she began to leave her mark: competitions, stages, distinctions. In 1990, her name resonated at the *Prémio Jovens Músicos* of Antena 2 and in other national competitions, as if the future were already calling her. She studied with demanding masters — Lídia Lantos and Miguel Henriques in Lisbon, Ralf Nattkemper in Hamburg — shaping her technique with rigour and her sensitivity with courage.

A period of deepening and searching followed. Between 1996 and 2001, in Lausanne, at the Ciem Mozart Foundation, Yuki immersed herself in pianistic interpretation as one searches for an inner truth. There, under the guidance of Fausto Zadra and Marie Louise Bastyns Zadra, the piano ceased to be merely an instrument and became a voice. In Italy, during an international course-competition, she was invited to perform with the Como Philharmonic Orchestra. A moment in which the dream took on body and orchestra.

At the beginning of the 2000s, chamber music opened new paths for her. In 2003, piano four hands became dialogue and complicity, leading her to emblematic stages in Portugal, such as the Coliseu dos Recreios, and once again to Japan, where her roots blossomed anew. In 2004, she recorded her first CD, bringing together Portuguese and Japanese composers in a single artistic gesture, and went on tour in a year marked by the celebrations of Wenceslau de Moraes, a figure who, like her, lived between cultures.

Greater recognition came in 2005 when, within the scope of the Aichi World Expo, Yuki represented Portugal in several concerts in Japan. Music then served as a diplomatic and poetic bridge, culminating in her being awarded the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. But destiny, as in an unexpected turn of a novel, imposed silence: at the age of 30, a neuromuscular injury to her right hand forced her away from the piano and from musical life for almost eighteen years. It was a time of shadow, waiting, and resilience — a long interlude.

Her return was not sudden, but profound. In 2017, Yuki rediscovered her path through the international ICPA programme in Belgium, working with Nelson Delle-Vigne and Eugen Indjic, and in Portugal with Manuela Gouveia, who helped her rebuild not only her technique, but her confidence. From this journey emerged "Search For Eden", an album released in 2023, composed and performed by herself, and warmly received by both critics and audiences. In 2024, she brought this “Eden” to Portuguese stages, with concerts commented by Maestro António Vitorino D’Almeida. In 2025, she released *Peace Please*, a project supported by ANTARTE, affirming a music that calls for reconciliation and listening.

Now, Yuki is immersed in the creation of **和・ONENESS**, a new project that celebrates unity between cultures and beings, with concerts planned for 2026 and 2027. The story continues — not as a return to the past, but as a rebirth.