Jun Shimada
Piano
Jun Shimada was born in Tokyo in 2005 and began studying piano at the age of six. At twelve, he moved to the United States and entered the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. He has won numerous awards, including First Prize at the Juilliard Pre-College Piano Concerto Competition in 2018 and 2023, the Gold Medal at the 6th Manhattan International Music Competition (Piano Division), First Prize at the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, and First Prize at the Juilliard Pre-College Nordmann and Baccauer Piano Competition.
He has been educated by Yoshiko Ogawa, Masako Tsujii, Hung-Kuan Chen, and Tema Blackstone. He has also worked with Insu Choi, Tsunehito Nakai, Kei Itoh, Atsushi Imada, Matthew Odell, and Eric Lu, and has studied chamber music with Constance Moore.
He has participated in international festivals such as the Mozarteum International Summer Academy (Austria), Aspen Music Festival (USA), Piano Academy Eppan (Italy), and Piano Texas International Festival (USA). He has taken masterclasses with distinguished pianists including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Arie Vardi, Mikhail Voskresensky, Akiko Ebi, Dang Thai Son, Jerome Lowenthal, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Antonio Pompa-Baldi.
In 2023 he was selected as a High School Trainee Artist under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, and as a Japanese Artist Representative for the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission’s Artist Exchange Program. His scholarships and grants include awards from the Chopin Foundation of the United States, Artemisia Foundation, Piano Texas, the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan), and the Japanese American Association of New York, with additional support from the Akiyama & Mizue Project.
He was awarded a full scholarship to the Juilliard School and entered the Bachelor of Music program in Piano in August 2025. In October 2025, he participated in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
CHANEL Pygmalion Days 2026 Artist.
(As od November, 2025)
He has been educated by Yoshiko Ogawa, Masako Tsujii, Hung-Kuan Chen, and Tema Blackstone. He has also worked with Insu Choi, Tsunehito Nakai, Kei Itoh, Atsushi Imada, Matthew Odell, and Eric Lu, and has studied chamber music with Constance Moore.
He has participated in international festivals such as the Mozarteum International Summer Academy (Austria), Aspen Music Festival (USA), Piano Academy Eppan (Italy), and Piano Texas International Festival (USA). He has taken masterclasses with distinguished pianists including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Arie Vardi, Mikhail Voskresensky, Akiko Ebi, Dang Thai Son, Jerome Lowenthal, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Antonio Pompa-Baldi.
In 2023 he was selected as a High School Trainee Artist under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, and as a Japanese Artist Representative for the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission’s Artist Exchange Program. His scholarships and grants include awards from the Chopin Foundation of the United States, Artemisia Foundation, Piano Texas, the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan), and the Japanese American Association of New York, with additional support from the Akiyama & Mizue Project.
He was awarded a full scholarship to the Juilliard School and entered the Bachelor of Music program in Piano in August 2025. In October 2025, he participated in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
CHANEL Pygmalion Days 2026 Artist.
(As od November, 2025)
