About Me
ENGLISH
Rintaro Nishigaki is a fingerstyle guitar player who plays various style of music such as classic, jazz, bossa nova, flamenco, baroque, renaissance, and so on with baroque guitar, romantic guitar, and modern guitar. He plays in many formations such as with string quartet, jazz piano trio, violin, flute, harpe, voice, cemballo, biwa, youkin, etc... He is also a player on biwa interpreting oldest music score in japan "Banka-so" of 1200 years ago and contemporary music such as composed by Toshi Ichiyanagi with this oriental instrument.
He was born at Tokyo in a artist family and grew up at Kyoto et Kobe. He started playing the guiatr at the age on 3. He won a lot of prizes at national and international competitions and had a lot of concerts. He went studying music in France at Conservatoire National de Region de Nice where he studyied with Henri Dorigny and Ako Ito. He teached and judged examans at music schools and conservatoires. He gives a lot of concerts in europe and in japan.
He also plays the violin, the viola, and pingpong!
FRENCH
Rintaro Nishigaki est un fingerstyle guitariste qui joue classic, jazz, flamenco, bossa nova, baroque musique, renaissance musique,etc... en interpretant guitare baroque, guitare romantique, et guitare modern. Il joue avec des formations variees comme avec quartuor a corde, jazz piano trio, clavecin, violin, flute, harpe, voix, biwa, youkin, etc... Il est aussi joueur du biwa qui interprete la partition plus ancienne du japon "Banka-so". Il interprete cette musique qui exsiste depuis plus que 1200 ans et aussi musique contemporaine comme Toshi Ichiyanagi avec cet instrument oriental.
Il est ne dans une famille d'artistes, il a commenc l'etude de la guitare des sa petite enfance, il joue en public et presente des concours ou il gagne de nombreux prix. En 1997, il etudie au CNR de Nice (classe d'Henri Dorigny et d'Ako Ito). Nombreux concerts en France, en Italie, au Japon. Il a enseigne au Conservatoire de Frejus, jure aux examens de l' ENM de Colomar (Alpes Maritimes). Il donne des nombreux concerts en europe et au japon.
Il joue egalement le violon, l'alto et pingpong!
