MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Yshani is a conductor, MD, pianist and composer known for the breadth of her artistry across genres and disciplines. She has performed at venues from the Royal Albert Hall to across London’s West End, at events from Live at the London Palladium to All Your Bass Festival, and with artists from the Philharmonia Orchestra to Kate Nash. Yshani is currently music director and multi-instrumentalist 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.

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 the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Mighty Hoopla pop Festival, Goat for Rambert Dance Company / Lost Dog Dance, with Australian circus troupe Circa at the Barbican, Les Noces for New Movement Collective, and with Olivier award winning show Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. She was Consultant MD for Olivier-winning Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, a collaboration between Royal Opera singers and devising folk artists Little Bulb Theatre.