Sayaka Shoji (庄司 紗矢香 Shoji Sayaka, born 30 January 1983) is a Japanese classical violinist. She was the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999. 　　She was born in Tokyo into an artistic family (her mother is a painter, grandmother is a poet) and spent her early childhood in Siena, Italy. Her family moved back to Japan when she was five years old: here she started studying the violin. At the age of fifteen she moved to Germany to study at Hochschule fur Musik Kln under Zakhar Bron and graduated in 2004. Her other teachers have included Saschko Gawriloff, Uto Ughi and Shlomo Mintz.