Photo: Jan Willem Kaldenbach
Koyo Yamamoto
Coryphée
Koyo started dancing when he was 5 years old. When he was 11 years old he began studying at the Acri-Horimoto Ballet Academy. He trained at this academy until he was accepted at the Tanz Akademie in Zürich, where he studied for another three years thanks to a Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation scholarship.
CV
Place of Birth:
Tokyo (Japan)
With Dutch National Ballet since:
2020
Career with Dutch National Ballet:
Coryphée (2024), corps de ballet (2023), élève (2022), Junior Company (2020)
Training:
Acri-Horimoto Ballet Academy (Japan), Tanz Akademie Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)
Awards:
- 2018: 1st prize in the Tallinn International Ballet Competition (Estonia)
- 2017: 4th prize in the Prix de Lausanne