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; Homare Kikuchi (translator), Shigeo Mito (translation supervisor) (August 2009). リュート―神々の楽器― [Historisch-theoretische und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten] (in Japanese) (2 ed.). Tokyo Collegium. ISBN 978-4-924541-90-0. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - Galilei, Vincenzo; Homare Kikuchi (translator), Shigeo Mito (translation supervisor) (August 2009). フロニモ―リュートの賢者― [Fronimo] (in Japanese). Tokyo Collegium. ISBN 978-4-924541-91-7. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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