Yuka Imamine was born in 1969 in Osaka, Japan. with five years already, she started her first piano lessons. Form 1988 to 1992 she studied Western history in Japan. From 1992 on she studied the piano at the Musikhochschule in Munich with Professor Klaus Schilde, and took a course in "Liedgestaltung" with Professor Helmut Deutsch. In 1993, she won the First Prize at the Fourth International Schubert-Competition in Dortmund. In 1994, she finished her diploma in Munich with honorable mention. Since then, she has been taking mastercourses with Professor Margarita Höhenrieder at the Musikhochschule in Munich and international mastercourses with Professor A. von Arnim.