As a multi-genre pianist and music director, Yshani has performed at venues from Wigmore Hall to the London Palladium, at events from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to the Barbican Mime Festival, and with artists from the Philharmonia to Nina Conti. She is pianist of the Del Mar Piano Trio and Carismático Tango Band, a regular improvising pianist with The Comedy Store Players, and a guest broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
Yshani was music director / conductor for triple-Oliver winner Emilia at the Vaudeville Theatre, Ruination at Royal Opera House, Street Scene for Opéra Bastille, Passion starring Ruthie Henshall, Poppea for English Touring Opera, Goat for Rambert Dance Company / Lost Dog Dance, circus troupe Circa at the Barbican, Les Noces for New Movement Collective, Longborough Opera’s 2022 Waley-Cohen / Caccini programme, 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 House and Little Bulb Theatre. She is currently music director of new music-theatre work The F**gots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Philip Venables & Ted Huffman, co-commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Southbank Centre, Bregenzer Festspiele and NYU Center in New York City.
Yshani’s commitment to contemporary music has seen her premiere works including by Charlotte Bray, Joe Cutler, Gavin Higgins, Hannah Kendall, Benjamin Oliver, Alex Paxton and Kate Whitley. Her commissions for piano, Commodore 64 and bespoke 8-bit synthesisers have been performed at the National Theatre Riverstage, The Place Theatre and the All Your Bass National Videogames Arcade festival. As a composer herself, commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, Onyx Brass, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, St. Martin’s Voices and music for a play about Fanny Mendelssohn, with her arrangements performed by CHROMA, Chineke! and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Share Sound.
Yshani was winner of the 10th Yamaha Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award, and was a scholar at the Royal College of Music.