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Born 1985 in Osaka Japan, Shohei Sekimoto started playing the piano at the age of 5.

2004-graduated Toho Gakuen School of Music
2005- graduated Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (Rohm Music Foundation Scholar)
2006- entered Toho Gakuen School of Music, Soloist Diploma Course
He received prizes in the PTNA Piano Competition starting from the gold prize in B grade(1995), G grade (2000), Grand-prix in Concerto grade (2001), Grand-prix of Grade Superior and the 1st Yasuko Fukuda prize (2003).

2000- 1st Chopin International Piano Competition in ASIA, junior high school division, gold prize
2003- 5th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, 4th prize
2004- 8th Matsukata Hall Music Award
2005- 2nd International Chopin Piano Competition Delegate Competition, gold prize
2005- 5th Morocco International Music Competition, 1st prize
2005- 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, 4th prize
2006- Aoyama Music Prize for new artist, the 32th Chopin Society of Japan Awards

2000- Concerts at Carnegie Hall (Weil Recital Hall) and Steinway Hall in New York
2001- First recital
2004- Concert at Cortot Hall in Paris
2005- Concert at Japanese embassy in Paris
2005- Concert at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) “The Passion of Music”
2006- Debut CD ”Chopin Recital” was released
2006- Concert at Carnegie Hall (Isaac Stern Auditorium)

He successfully performed with the NHK Symphony, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Japan Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble KOBE Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. and many others. He has given numerous recitals in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hyogo, Osaka, Kyoto, and throughout the world.
He has studied with Chikako Inagaki and Mikhail Voskresensky. Sekimoto has been Yuko Ninomiya's pupil since he was fourteen years old.