Kaori Muraji

Kaori Muraji (村治佳織) is a Japanese classical guitarist. She is the first Japanese artist to have signed an exclusive international contract with Decca Music Group.

Biography
Muraji learned to play the guitar from the age of 3 on. First she was taught by her father and from the age of ten by the guitarist Shinichi Fukuda. In the early 1990s she won several guitar competition in Japan and in 1993 gave her debut recital in the Tsuda Hall. In the same year she published with Espressivo, her first album, with her Orchestra debut happening in the following year with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1997, she moved to Europe to study under Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. After her graduation in 1999, she moved back to Japan.

Discography

 * Espressivo
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 October 1993: Victor Entertainment
 * GREEN SLEEVES
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 January 1995: Victor Entertainment
 * sinfonia
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 24 July 1996: Victor Entertainment
 * Pastorale
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 November 1997: Victor Entertainment
 * CAVATINA
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 November 1998: Victor Entertainment
 * Concierto de Aranjuez
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Kazufumi Yamashita, conductor
 * New Japan Philharmonic
 * 23 March 2000: Victor Entertainment
 * Resplandor De La Guitarra
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Orquesta de Cámara Joaquín Rodrigo
 * 24 April 2002: Victor Entertainment
 * LA ESTELLA
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 February 2004: Victor Entertainment
 * Transformations
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Dominic Miller, guitar
 * 21 July 2004 (Japanese Release)
 * March, 2005 (International Release): Decca Music Group
 * Spain
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 21 October 2005: Victor Entertainment
 * lumières
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 26 October 2005 (Japanese Release)
 * February, 2006 (International Release): Decca Music Group
 * Lyre & Sonnet/Into the Light
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * The Sixteen, choir
 * Harry Christophers, conductor
 * 25 October 2006 (Japanese Release)
 * Spring, 2007 (International Release): Decca Music Group
 * Amanda
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Michiru Oshima, conductor
 * ORCHESTRE DES VIRTUOSES DE PARIS
 * 25 April 2007 (Japanese Release)
 * Kaori Muraji plays Bach
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Christian Funke, conductor
 * Bachorchester, Leipzig
 * 1 January 2008
 * Viva! Rodrigo
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Victor Pablo Pérez, conductor
 * Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
 * 4 February 2008: Decca Music Group
 * Portrait
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 5 April 2010: Decca Music Group
 * Rhapsody Japan
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * 26 October 2016
 * Soleil - Portraits 2
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Soichi Muraji, guitar
 * 26 Octrober 2016
 * Cinema - Movie Themes For Classical Guitar
 * Kaori Muraji, guitar
 * Soichi Muraji, guitar
 * 22 March 2019