Jiro Yoshioka is a Composer, Arranger, Producer and Cellist, based in Munich Germany.
He especially loves Maurice Ravel, Tōru Takemitsu, Igor Stravinsky and Spaghetti Carbonara.

His musical journey began with the cello, studying under Edgar Gredler and attending masterclasses with Danjulo Ishizaka and Daniel Müller-Schott. As a young musician, he also sang with the renowned Tölzer Knabenchor. His talent as a cellist was recognized early on: in 2014 he won first prize at the Jugend musiziert Bundeswettbewerb in the String Quartet category, where he also received a Special Prize from Sparkasse München. Two years later, he was awarded first prize at the Landeswettbewerb in the category Cello Solo. Yoshioka later turned his focus to composition, studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Gerd Baumann, specializing in film and media music. His work has since led to commissions for the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and to collaborations with the University of Television and Film Munich and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with several of these projects screened at major festivals including the Berlinale, Hofer Filmtage, IMFF (China), Oregon Film Festival (USA), and the BonDance International Film Festival (Japan). Beyond his work for film and media, Yoshioka composes and conducts concert music and creates arrangements across diverse formats, from theatre to opera. His symphonic works and orchestrations have been performed by leading ensembles such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, including a performance at Prague’s Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum. Together with Eve George, he co-wrote the VR opera NIMMERSATT, which premiered at the Munich Biennale, and he contributed to the song Fragen fragen, commissioned by the City of Munich and premiered at the Isarphilharmonie, performed by more than 300 children. Most recently, Yoshioka composed the music for Borders Between Us together with Arezou Rezaei, a two-hour audio walk presented at the Residenztheater Munich during the Welt/Bühne Festival, with a script written by eleven international playwrights.

A comment on a recent performance:
'Three years before full moon' is a composition about a well-known japanese paraphrase for a love confession. The writer Natsume Sōseki translated the sentence 'I love you' to:
'The moon is beautiful.(月が綺麗ですね。)'.
There was a huge resonance and acceptance of this horribly indirect love confession, so people who were inspired by the beauty in the simplicity invented a way to reject the love confession:
'I don't see the moon. (月が見えません。)'
My piece 'Three years before full moon' might include that thought."
- 2025 3/13