Yukio Yokoyama studied at Paris Music Conservatoire under Jacques Rouvier, Vlado Perlmuter and others. In 1989 he won prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibeaud Concours. In 1990, at the age of 19, he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with awards of Premier Prix in piano and chamber music, and the same year won third prize (no first prize was allocated that year) and also the Sonata prize from the Chopin International Piano Competition. In 2010, in one concert he played 166 solo works of Chopin, including all of the published pieces plus the major posthumous works, mostly in written order. The Guinness Book of World Records granted him the World Record in the category "Most pieces of music performed by a solo artist in 24 hours."

Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Yukio Yokoyama: Hommage a Rachmaninoff Vocalise

Rachmaninoff: Preludes, Op. 23 No. 4, No. 5, etc

Piano｜Yukio Yokoyama