Kazuhito Yamashita

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Kazuhito Yamashita ( Japanese 山下 和 仁 , Yamashita Kazuhito ; born March 25, 1961 in Nagasaki ) is a Japanese concert guitarist.

He learned to play the guitar from his father, Toru Yamashita. At the age of eleven, in 1972, he won first prize in the Kyūshū guitar competition, and in 1977 he emerged as the winner of the Concours International de Guitare of French radio. In 1978 the first annual recital took place across Japan, from Hokkaidō to Okinawa . Kazuhito provided the first surprise with his arrangement of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's “Pictures at an Exhibition”, published in 1981 . This adaptation and its public performance is still a sensation today. In 1983 Kazuhito received the German Record Award for this .

He studied with the following professors: Kojiro Kobune , J. Thomas, Narciso Yepes , Andrés Segovia , Toru Takemitsu . Kazuhito also arranged the "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt and the symphony "From the New World" by Antonín Dvořák . His arrangements of classical music literature still puzzles even the most accomplished guitarist today. He is one of the most gifted guitarists in terms of motor skills, which made him known especially in his homeland. In connection with his virtuosity, it was claimed that he was "playing over" various pieces, in other words that he was playing them too quickly, and thus distorting the intended character of these pieces.

literature

  • Tadashi Sasaski in conversation with the guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita (German arrangement: Thomas Müller-Pering; Mettmann, September 26, 1985). In: nova giulianiad 7/85, p. 148 ff.

Web links

swell

  • K. Yamashita, Pictures at an Exhibition , Gendai Guitar, Tokyo 1981, ISBN 4-87471-028-X .
  • K. Yamashita, Edition No. 4 , Gendai Guitar.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Moser : 23rd "International Guitar Competition 1981" of the French radio in Paris. In: Guitar & Laute 2, 1980, 3, p. 20 f.
  2. ↑ Lucie Fehr: Signs of an exhibition. Heretical about transcriptions. In: Guitar & Laute 9, 1987, 3, p. 29 f.
  3. ↑ Matanya Ophee: Hear Yamashita ... and be amazed. In: Guitar & Laute 6, 1984, Heft 6, pp. 58-62.
personal data
SURNAME Yamashita, Kazuhito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山下 和 仁 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese concert guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagasaki