Sayaka Shoji(庄司紗矢香) plays brahms violin concerto in D major, Op. 77 3rd

Sayaka Shoji (庄司 紗矢香, Shōji Sayaka , born 30 January, 1983) is a Japanese classical violinist. She is the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999. She 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. Her other teachers have included Sashko Gawrillow, Uto Ughi and Shlomo Mintz. Zubin Mehta has been