Shohei Uwamori is a graduate of the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Universität der Künste Berlin. He has been awarded the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, which he received from the Sony Music Foundation after being recognised by Seiji Ozawa and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi as the most promising cellist in 2016, and First Prize at the 66th Music Competition of Japan. He has taught at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
He continues to undertake his many activities as a soloist as well as a guest principal cellist with major orchestras, and participates in the annual recital project Best 9 in Tokyo, which features the complete Cello Suites of Bach and Britten.