Yuki Murakami is a Japanese-born writer, choral arranger, and translator based in the Netherlands. Raised in Sendai and trained in music education at Tokyo Gakugei University, she moved to Amersfoort in 2008 to study composition and sound design at HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht). Her essays and reportage have appeared in small European magazines and on Dutch public radio, where she has contributed pieces on language, migration, and the acoustics of public space.
Murakami's hybrid work often bridges performance and the page. She has arranged music for community choirs at St. Joriskerk, collaborated with theater collectives in Utrecht, and worked as a Japanese–Dutch interpreter for touring musicians. Her first collection of essays, Paper Bridges, explored the rituals of moving between homes and languages and was shortlisted for the Horizon Essay Prize. She lives near the Eem with her partner, a photographer, and runs local middle-distance races when she is not translating scripts or rehearsing new choral pieces.
