Kazuhito Yamashita

Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita continues to be in comparison to a one-man music group. He doesn’t play several instrument at the same time, and he doesn’t strap drums and cymbals to his back again, but he provides managed to perform the seemingly difficult: effectively arrange full-scale symphonic music for the traditional guitar. Mussorgsky’s Images at an Exhibition, Stravinsky’s Firebird Collection, and also Dvorak’s “” NEW WORLD “” Symphony have already been subjected to Yamashita’s musical strainer to emerge as absurdly tough, yet extremely powerful products for solo electric guitar. Yamashita is, nevertheless, not really a gimmick-artist: his true musical home is within the standard electric guitar repertoire, which he has with a specialized skill and stylistic assuredness which have few equals in your guitar globe. Kazuhito Yamashita was created in 1961 in the town of Nagasaki. In 1976 he gained the All-Japan Electric guitar Competition, and in 1977 he had taken the top awards from the Ramirez Competition in Spain, the Alessandria competition in Italy, as well as the Concours International de Guitare in Paris. He was, understandably, the chat of the musical city, and effective concert appearances within the world’s musical capitals shortly followed. He includes a particular affinity for the (abundant) electric guitar music of Fernando Sor, the entire body which he provides recorded. His agreements of non-guitar functions for solo electric guitar have not often gained him the like from the musical establishment: shows of such transcriptions because the above orchestral products usually move hand-in-hand with a degree of controversy, as well as the issue in regards to the merit of such over-the-top — some would contact it garish — screen proceeds unabated. Yamashita hasn’t involved himself very much within the issue, nevertheless, and he is constantly on the prove himself perhaps one of the most amazing performers of his time.