Mayuri Yoshii, a freelance oboist residing in the Chicagoland area, started playing the oboe at age 13. She completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in oboe performance at Bowling Green State University under Nermis Mieses, and earned a post-master’s certificate in oboe performance at DePaul University. She was a finalist in The Sixth Sense Chamber Competition in Japan in 2024, and in 2022 she won first prize in the Young Artist Competition at the Trentino Music Festival in Mezzano, Italy. She actively performs solo and orchestral music in Illinois and Wisconsin, maintains a private studio, and runs a reed making business.