Yukio Yokoyama is a Japanese pianist, born in Tokyo in 1971. He went to study at the Paris Music Conservatoire Collegium with a scholarship from the French Government in 1987. There, he studied under Jacques Rouvier, Vlado Perlmuter and others. In 1989, he won prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Concours.
In 1990, at the age of 19, he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with grants of Premier Prix in piano and chamber music and the same year won third prize from the Chopin International Piano Competition and also the Sonata prize.
With this success, Yokoyama then officially began his concert activities, including recitals and performances with orchestras in cities all around the world, in addition to chamber music and radio broadcast performances.
In 2001, he made his successful recital debut as well as concerto debut in St. Petersburg with the St. Petersburg Philharmony under Nikolai Alexeev. During the years of 2005 - 2006, Yokoyama performed together with Berlin Symphony Orchestra “Emperor Concerto” under the baton of Eliahu Inbal.
And in 2011, Yokoyama performed 212 Chopin solo works, including previously unpublished pieces, in a single concert, thus breaking his own Guinness World Record.
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