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Sayaka Shoji
Japanese classical violinist (born 1983)
Sayaka Shoji 庄司 紗矢香 | |
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Sayaka Shoji in 2014 | |
| Born | (1983-01-30) January 30, 1983 (age 42) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Violinist |
| Years active | 1995-present |
| Website | sayakashoji.com |
Musical artist
Sayaka Shoji (庄司 紗矢香, Shōji Sayaka, born 30 January 1983) is a Japanese classical violinist. She was the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999.
Biography
[edit]Shoji was born in Tokyo into an artistic family (her mother is a painter; her grandmother, a poet) and spent her early childhood in Siena, Italy. When she was 5 years old her family moved back to Japan, where she started studying the violin. From 1995 until 2000, she studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana under Uto Ughi and Riccardo Brengola. At the age of 13, she went to Germany for a year to study with Saschko Gawriloff. In 1998, she moved to Germany to study at Hochschule für Musik Köln under Z
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The Japanese violinist, Sayaka Shoji, was born into an artistic family (her mother is a painter, grandmother is a poet) and spent her childhood in Siena, Italy. She studied at Hochschule für Musik Köln under Zakhar Bron and graduated in 2004 and has since made Europe her permanent base. Her other teachers have included Sashko Gawrillow, Uto Ughi, Shlomo Mintz and Riccardo Brengola (for chamber music).. She is the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999.
Zubin Mehta has been her strong supporter. When Sayaka Shoji auditioned for him in 2000, he immediately changed his schedule in order to make her first recording with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra possible in the following month, then invited her to perform with Bavarian State Opera and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.Since then she has performed with many prominent orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Ba
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An internationally renowned violinist admired for her extraordinary artistic versatility, Sayaka Shoji was born in Tokyo and moved to Siena at the age of three. She studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, making her debut at the age of 14 with the Lucerne Festival Strings at the Lucerne Festival and the Musikverein in Vienna.
In 1999, she won the Premio Paganini, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the competition. Since then, she has been invited to collaborate with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Semyon Bychkov, Mariss Jansons, and Yuri Temirkanov, performing with some of the world’s most important orchestras: Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Wiener Symphoniker, Mariinsky Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra, among others.
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