Shion MINAMI was born in the city of Kitakyuishu in 1989 and started to play the violin at the age of 3. She has studied with Eisuke Shinozaki, Miki Shinozaki and presently is studying with Koichiro Harada and Yuh Nishiwada. She is in her 1st grade at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

In 2000, she won the 1st prize at the 54th Student Music Concourse of Japan, Fukuoka preliminary, elementary level and the 2nd prize (no 1st prize) at the 10th Japan Classical Music Competition, final, elementary level. She won the 1st prize at the 56th Student Music Concourse of Japan, Fukuoka preliminary, Junior High level in 2002.

Since 2004, her territory of activities expanded to overseas. At the age of 15, she was the winner of the 13th Alberto-Curci International Violin Competition. In 2005, she made her debut in Italy. In October of the same year, she won the 2nd prize and the SACEM prize in recognition of her best recital performance at Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud. At the competition gala held in Paris in 2006, she performed with Orchestre National de France. Her performance with Orchestre National de Lille in 2007 was highly acclaimed. Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo and Chamber Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala are just a few of the other international orchestras that she has worked with.

In 2006, Concours International Long-Thibaud Gala Concert was held at Suntory Hall, where she performed with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Junichi Hirokami. In the same year, she worked with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra led by Taijiro Iimori, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra led by Junichi Hirokami and played Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola with Yasushi Toyoshima. In 2007, she was reengaged to appear at the Long-Thibaud gala and performed heated Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Seikyo Kim and with the Kansai Philharmonic. MINAMI has played with the Kyoshu Symphony Orchestra a number of times with such conductors as the late Kotaro Sato, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Kazuhiro Koizumi and David Geringas. She is expected to further her activities nationally and internationally.

MINAMI is a recipient of Kitakyushu Culture and Citizenship Special Award 2005 and Fukuoka Prefecture Culture Award 2006. She is the first artist to be featured on a new label “UCJ Japan”, Universal Music and her debut CD (her debut recital at Kioi Hall in December 2007).