Diana Yukawa first grabbed the limelight in Japan as a 14-year-old playing the violin at a memorial service, struggling with the loss of her father in the 1985 Japan Airlines crash that killed 520 people onboard.

Now, nine years after her debut on the music scene in 2000, the Tokyo-born Yukawa is reinventing her image from a child prodigy with a tragic past to a 23-year-old contemporary violinist.

"I wanted to really try and show that the violin is not just a classical instrument," she said. Now based in London, Yukawa describes her musical mission as sending "the message that being a violinist, you can perform any kind of music and you don't need to be just one category, it can be across the board."