Yosuke Shimizu
Cello
Born in 2002, in Gifu Prefecture, cellist Yosuke SHIMIZU started playing cello at the age of 6.
Has studied cello under Hiromi Yamanaka, Ryoichi Hayashi, Yutaka Hayashi, Nobuko Yamazaki, Dai Miyata, and Susan Moses. He also attended master classes with Miklós Perényi, Tamás Varga, Kangho Lee, and others. In 2015 and 2016, he was invited by Indiana University (the United States) to attend the summer programs. In 2017, at the age of 14, he moved to Hungary by himself and entered the Béla Bartók Music High School and the School for Exceptional Young Talents at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. From 2021, he continued studying as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holder at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest under Csaba Onczay and graduated with the highest honors in 2024.
He won the International Cello Competition 2024 (Bratislava, Slovakia), the 2nd category of the 5th David Popper International Cello Competition (Hungary, 2013), the 6th Gifu International Music Festival Competition, and the gold medal at the 16th Izuminomori Junior Cello Contest (Japan). He also won the 4th category of the 9th David Popper International Cello Competition (Hungary, 2021) and received the Special prize for holding a concert with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra. In 2023, he received the Gifu Prefecture Arts & Culture Encouragement Award.
Performed as a soloist with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, the Japan Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian Alvaregia Symphony Orchestra, the Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, and the Cappella Istropolitana under the batons of Oliver von Dohnányi, Kazufumi Yamashita, Konstantin Ilievsky, Masahiro Izaki, Kan Sawada, and Gergely Dubóczky. His stage appearances include the opening ceremony of the 39th National Culture Festival (Gifu, 2024) with the attendance of Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and the occasion of Princess Kako of Akishino’s visit to Hungary in 2019.
He is currently active as a soloist and chamber music player in Japan and other countries: his latest recitals were in Budapest, Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig in 2019. He is also active as an orchestra player, especially at “Kobaken and His Friends Orchestra” under the baton of Ken-ichiro Kobayashi.
CHANEL Pygmalion Days 2025 Artist.
(As of September, 2024)
Has studied cello under Hiromi Yamanaka, Ryoichi Hayashi, Yutaka Hayashi, Nobuko Yamazaki, Dai Miyata, and Susan Moses. He also attended master classes with Miklós Perényi, Tamás Varga, Kangho Lee, and others. In 2015 and 2016, he was invited by Indiana University (the United States) to attend the summer programs. In 2017, at the age of 14, he moved to Hungary by himself and entered the Béla Bartók Music High School and the School for Exceptional Young Talents at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. From 2021, he continued studying as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holder at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest under Csaba Onczay and graduated with the highest honors in 2024.
He won the International Cello Competition 2024 (Bratislava, Slovakia), the 2nd category of the 5th David Popper International Cello Competition (Hungary, 2013), the 6th Gifu International Music Festival Competition, and the gold medal at the 16th Izuminomori Junior Cello Contest (Japan). He also won the 4th category of the 9th David Popper International Cello Competition (Hungary, 2021) and received the Special prize for holding a concert with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra. In 2023, he received the Gifu Prefecture Arts & Culture Encouragement Award.
Performed as a soloist with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, the Japan Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian Alvaregia Symphony Orchestra, the Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, and the Cappella Istropolitana under the batons of Oliver von Dohnányi, Kazufumi Yamashita, Konstantin Ilievsky, Masahiro Izaki, Kan Sawada, and Gergely Dubóczky. His stage appearances include the opening ceremony of the 39th National Culture Festival (Gifu, 2024) with the attendance of Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and the occasion of Princess Kako of Akishino’s visit to Hungary in 2019.
He is currently active as a soloist and chamber music player in Japan and other countries: his latest recitals were in Budapest, Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig in 2019. He is also active as an orchestra player, especially at “Kobaken and His Friends Orchestra” under the baton of Ken-ichiro Kobayashi.
CHANEL Pygmalion Days 2025 Artist.
(As of September, 2024)
