Yuko has taught elementary school, middle school, high school, university, and community school steelbands. She has presented her work at multiple conferences including at the Young Women’s Conference in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Princeton University and International Conference and Panorama in Trinidad and Tobago. She conducted several workshops at various locations including Japan, Australia and Thailand. In 2009, Yuko co-founded the Pastiche Steel Ensemble, a group of musicians who performed new music for steelpan and advocated for culturally attuned steelpan education. She also co-founded the Virtual Steelband and Pan in Unity, an online performance project that brought together pannists from across the globe. Yuko not only tunes, teaches, conducts workshops, and performs, but also transcribes panorama arrangements, serves as clinician/adjudicator for steelpan festivals and competitions, and writes music for steelbands and chamber groups at all levels. She was invited to perform her original composition, “Opposite Attraction: Three Short Pieces for Tenor and Bass Steelpans” at the 2019 Percussive Arts Society International Convention. In celebration of her many years of hard work and dedication, Yuko was the feature of a Japanese documentary show entitled Gutto Chikyubin (Earth Mail) in 2017 and 2020. In 2022, Yuko was selected as the only non-Trinbagonian to be featured in the documentary entitled, Women in Pan, produced in Trinidad and Tobago. Her works are published by maumaumusic.com and ramajay.com.
