Yshani is a music director, pianist and composer known for the breadth of her artistry across
genres and disciplines, taking her to venues from Wigmore Hall to the London Palladium, to events from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to the All Your Bass Festival, and into collaborations with artists from the Philharmonia to Kate Nash. She is a regular guest broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
From podium to pit, Yshani’s bold, collaborative and imaginative leadership of diverse projects has garnered her international recognition. Such projects include Street Scene for Opéra de Paris, triple-Oliver winner Emilia at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, Ruination for the Royal Ballet, Passion starring Ruthie Henshall, with Olivier award winning show Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Mighty Hoopla pop Festival, Goat for Rambert Dance Company / Lost Dog Dance, Australian circus troupe Circa at the Barbican and Les Noces for New Movement Collective. She was Consultant MD and composer of additional music for Olivier-winning Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, a folk-opera collaboration between Royal Opera singers and devising folk artists Little Bulb Theatre. Yshani is currently music director and multiinstrumentalist performer in the new music-theatre work The F**gots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Philip Venables & Ted Huffman with performances at Manchester International Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Bregenzer Festspiele, next performing at the Park Avenue Armory in December 2025.
Yshani was a scholar at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is one of the founding composers at Music Patron at Sound and Music seeking to revolutionise the way the industry funds music creators.Â
