Shigeo Mito

Shigeo Mito (水戸 茂雄, Mito Shigeo) is a Japanese lutenist, theorbist and vihuelista.

In 1980, Shigeo Mito went to Europe to study at Conservatorio Superior de Música Óscar Esplá de Alicante and the Madrid Royal Conservatory.[1] He studied the historical style with Willem Retze Talsma, lutes with Jose Miguel Moreno and Hopkinson Smith, and chamber music with Jordi Savall.[1] In 1986, he returned to Japan, then gave recitals in and outside Japan.[1]

Shigeo Mito has made some recordings of lute and vihuela including works of Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Johann Sebastian Bach on his own label.[1]

One of his notable contributions is writing Japanese books about the lute. He published Japanese textbooks on Renaissance and Baroque lutes.[2] In addition, with Homare Kikuchi, he translated some historical books on lutes (E. G. Baron and V. Galilei) into Japanese.

Supervision for translations
  • Baron, Ernst Gottlieb (August 2009). リュート―神々の楽器― [Historisch-theoretische und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten] (in Japanese). Translated by Homare Kikuchi (2 ed.). Tokyo Collegium. ISBN 978-4-924541-90-0.
  • Galilei, Vincenzo (August 2009). フロニモ―リュートの賢者― [Fronimo] (in Japanese). Translated by Homare Kikuchi. Tokyo Collegium. ISBN 978-4-924541-91-7.

References
  1. "Profile". Shigeo Mito. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  2. "Lute Methods". Shigeo Mito. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
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