Daishin Kashimoto was born in London in 1979.

He has won in five prestigious international competitions, including first prize wins in the Fritz Kreisler and Long-Thibaud international music competitions in 1996.

Kashimoto has performed with numerous orchestras under the auspices of renowned conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, and Mariss Jansons, and in chamber music, he has performed with numerous soloists including Gidon Kremer, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Emmanuel Pahud.

He became the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2010. He has performed as a soloist with conductors such as Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons at performances in the orchestra’s home town of Berlin and on tours.

From 2010, Kashimoto spent three years working on a highly acclaimed project to perform and record all of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with the pianist Konstantin Lifschitz.

He received the Arion Award in 1995, the Idemitsu and Mobile Music Awards in 1997, the Fresh Artists Award of the Nippon Steel Music Awards and The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists in 1998, the Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award in 2011, the Change Maker 2011 Award in the Creator category, and in 2017, the Himeji City Art and Culture Award.

In Germany, he has received the Steigenberger Prize and the Davidoff Prize.

The instrument he uses is a violin made by Andrea Guarneri in 1674.