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 prose now moves between essay, reportage, and long-form biography, with a particular ear for engineers, planners, and the ordinary citizens who shape European public space. 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.
Murakami's essays and features have appeared in small European magazines and on Dutch public radio, where she contributes pieces on language, migration, and the acoustics of streets, stations, and riverbanks. Her first collection of essays, Paper Bridges, was shortlisted for the Horizon Essay Prize, and her biographical work, Amersfoort, extended her interest in how places and the people who tend them acquire a voice. She lives near the Eem with her partner, a photographer, runs local middle-distance races, and divides her days between translating scripts, rehearsing choral pieces, and researching the lives behind civic design.
