Yoko Nagae Ceschina (チェスキーナ・永江洋子) (5 April 1932 – 10 January 2015) was a Japanese-born patron of the arts and noted patroness of classical music.

Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, to a businessman father and mother who played the piano domestically, Yoko Nagae was exposed to music at an early age.

[1] In 1962, at a Venice café, Nagae met Count Renzo Ceschina, a millionaire businessman from Milan approximately 25 years older than her.

[3] Yoko Ceschina subsequently sponsored such ensembles and musicians as the New York Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre, Carnegie Hall, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Harp Contest, and the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America.

In general, she rarely gave interviews, but regarding the controversies surrounding this concert, she publicly stated to various media organisations: "I hope that this will lead to some good will.

"Non capisco assolutamente nulla di politica, ma so che la musica riavvicina le persone e parla un linguaggio universale.

She was not survived by any children[3] and bequeathed a significant part of her inheritance, including Palazzo Barbarigo and famous Caffè Quadri in Venice, to Russian conductor Valery Gergiev.