Ms. Airi Yoshioka, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and winner of the Juilliard School's Concerto Competition is first violinist with the American Sinfonietta and a member of the American Sinfonietta Chamber Music Group. 

Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Deeply committed to chamber music, Ms. Yoshioka was a founding member of Yale University's Wenceslaus Ensemble and the Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed annually in the school's FOCUS! Festival as well as with the Lower Eastside Ensemble for Contemporary Music. Of a performance with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the New York Times wrote, "Airi Yoshioka played the violin solo touchingly."

A native of Japan, Ms. Yoshioka came to the United States at the age of 12 and received her early training as a student of Honorary Distinction at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, where she received the Branford College Arts Award and an M.M. from The Juillliard School. Summer festivals attended include Meadowmount, Encore, Sarasota, Banff, and Aspen.

She has served on the faculties of the Point CounterPoint Summer Music Camp and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia and currently teaches at the Third Street Music School Settlement in New York City. Educational outreach has been a vital aspect of Ms. Yoshioka's professional life through her work as a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center Institute. In addition, she has taught music at New York City public schools through the Morse Fellowship program and has performed in hospitals, hospices, and nursing homes as a recipient of the Community Service Fellowship. 

Ms. Yoshioka is currently a doctoral candidate at The Juilliard School and was a winner of the school's concerto competition. Among her teachers and coaches have been Jorja Fleezanis, Glenn Dicterow, Joey Corpus, Stephen Clapp, Syoko Aki, Felix Gallimir, Paul Kantor, Jerome Lowenthal, and Seymour Lipkin, as well as members of the Juilliard and Tokyo String Quartets.