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Heihachi Nagata (Lute)
After completing his studies in Jazz at A.N. Music School as a scholarship student, Heihachi Nagata graduated top of the class with a gold medal as a lute major from the Conservatoire National de Region de Strasbourg in France. He studied the lute with Yasunori Imamura and Brian Heehan, chamber music with Martin Justille, composition and improvisation with Takashi Kako, classical guitar with Norihiko Watanabe, and Jazz guitar with Yoshihiko Hosono. He started performing while in school and gave concerts in various cities in France and Germany. Currently Nagata performs across Japan as a soloist and basso continuo player of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque lutes and guitars. He has appeared on NHK's TV and radio programs. He performs at the Gijon Early Music Festival, and engages in concert tours in Indonesia and Taiwan. Nagata has recorded the CD J. Dowland's Lute Music, and the video Fascinating Early Music - The Renaissance Lute, as well as the soundtracks for Studio Ghibli's Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and Princess Mononoke, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. He is also active as a music director of plays and musicals. As a composer Nagata created the music for all of Shakespeare's works and Greek tragedies staged by Mikijiro Hira. He is a Lecturer of Nihon University College of Art.
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