Yoshihiro Koseki

Yoshihiro Koseki

He studied guitar under Shigeru Sato and Shiki Nagashima, musical composition under Hirokazu Sato, and jazz popular music theories under Tatsuya Inagaki. He has principally appeared as a classic guitar soloist but performed with players of other musical instruments such as violin, piano and cello, and with vocalists and reciters. He has given performances in Japan as well as in the U.S., Portugal, France and Hong Kong. His music writing is not limited to guitar music but includes chamber music for guitar with other instruments, incidental music for film and theater and for commercials. He has released 9 albums to date. He also has been highly appreciated as an arranger and been requested to offer composition or arrangement by many guitarists including Kaori Muraji. He currently holds a serial column in "Gendai Guitar Monthly" and publishes arrangement scores for guitar solo in the same magazine, and has published many arrangement scores including well-received "Music of Joe Hisaishi for Guitar Solo "(publisher: Gendai Guitar Co., Ltd.). He has been pursuing the possibility of classical guitar and keeps appealing its fascination. He is a member of the Japan Guitarist Association, serves as an Executive Director of the Guitar Ensemble Association of Japan, as an instructor at the Classical Guitar Club at Tohoku Fukushi University, and as the Representative of Wonder World Works.