Masahiro Ojiri (Management Collaboration)Masahiro Ojiri

Born in Tokyo, Masahiro Ojiri resides in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.
As a guitarist he moves freely between jazz and classical music. At Berklee he won the Harris Stanton Award, given to the most outstanding of over 700 guitar students at the school.
At the Manhattan School of Music he studied under Manuel Barrueco and won the Andrés Segovia Award. He took Third Prize at the 28th Paris International Guitar Competition.

Ojiri earned high acclaim for his concerts around the U.S., in Mexico, Italy and other countries. In 1992 he made his Japan debut performing the “Concerto de Aranjues” with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. He was selected for a project grant from the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) Foundation and gave a series of five recitals at Tsuda Hall, Tokyo, called “Masahiro Ojiri Guitar Cycle ’94-’95.”