Yuka Tadano
She/Her
Biography
Born and raised in Japan, Yuka Tadano plays upright, electric and synth bass.
BM & MM in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas.
Broadway:
Upright & Electric bass/IHC - Chess (Imperial October 2025 - Present)
Upright & Electric bass/IHC - Swept Away (Longacre October 2024- December 2024)
Upright & Electric bass - Suffs (Music Box March 2024- October 2024)
Upright & Electric bass/IHC - A Beautiful Noise (Broadhurst Theatre November 2022-March 2024)
Electric bass/IHC - The Lightning Thief (Longacre 2019)
Bass Sub: Dear Evan Hansen, Six, The Outsiders, Dead Outlaw
Off-Broadway:
Rolling Thunder (New World Stages, 2025)
Jonathan Larson Project (Orpheum, 2025)
Suffs (Public Theater, 2022)
Trevor (Stage 42, 2021)
Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Stage 42 2018)
The View Upstairs (Lynn Redgrave 2017)
National Tour: The Lightning Thief
Professional Experience
- Broadway
- Off Broadway
- Concerts/Cabaret
- TV/Film
- Tours
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
Maestra Expertise
- Songwriter
- Instrumentalist/Pit Musician
Primary Instruments
- Bass - Double/Electric
- Bass - Upright
Software
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- Sibelius
Affiliations
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
- MUSE
Person of Color?
- Yes