Kazuhito Yamashita

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

He learned to play the guitar from his father Toru Yamashita. With eleven years ago in 1972, he won the first prize in Kyushu Guitar Competition. In 1978 the first annual recital held all over Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. The first surprise delivered Kazuhito with his 1981 to published arrangement of the book " Pictures at an Exhibition " by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. This processing and its public performance is still regarded as a sensation. In 1983, Kazuhito for the German Record Prize.

He studied with the following professors: Kojiro Kobune, J. Thomas, Narciso Yepes, Andres Segovia, Toru Takemitsu. Kazuhito treated, among other things, the "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 " by Franz Liszt and the symphony " From the New World " by Antonín Dvořák. His adaptations of classical music literature give up today, even the most accomplished guitarists in such mystery that is to think of a re-enactment of his arrangements hardly. He is one of the most gifted guitarists motor at all what could be known to him, especially in his home country. Due to its sheer monstrous virtuosity but is often made ​​out to be by critics, various pieces to " dub ", meaning that he plays too fast and actually distorts the intended character of these pieces in this way.