Masahiro Nitta

Masahiro Nitta
CEO & President of Ezo’n music.The second generation of “Tsugaru shamisen Sangendo Nitta Ryu”, producer, composer.
Masahiro was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido.  He was influenced by his father Hiroshi Nitta, the head of the school Nitta-ryu, and started playing the Tsugaru shamisen at the age of 14. Seven months later, in 1988, he won a competition for senior high school students in Tokyo. He also won in 2000, 2001, and 2002.Masahiro has performed in 15 countries of the world.
 In Saudi Arabia, he was invited to the “Jenadriyah” by the Japan Foundation, and has contributed to international cultural exchanges. He was employed as the lecturer of Japanese traditional culture at university, and played in the tour for a month by the request of University of Pennsylvania, as the unit “Nitta Oyako(Parent and child Nitta)”. He performed at the concert “Japan NYC” directed by Seiji Ozawa in Carnegie Hall, in 2011. For the next day, he appeared on the front page of The New York Times.