Masaaki Kishibe - November by Elisabeth Fröhlich

November, original composition by Masaaki Kishibe performed by talented female guitarist from Germany Elisabeth Fröhlich.
Masaaki Kishibe from Osaka, Japan first learned to play piano and picked up the guitar when he was 14. Soon he started to study guitar under famed Japanese guitarist, and composer, Isato Nakagawa. In 1990, Masaaki Kishibe moved to the United States and became a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Even if he failed to graduate, and returned to Japan, he continued to self teach himself fingerstyle guitar playing, and began writing his own compositions. In 1995, Kishibe wrote and recorded his first record, "Truth". Over the next four years, Kishibe would continue to improve his playing ability and relesed several new albums, separate live performance and instruction DVDs. He performed at the 32nd Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, 2003 and took 2nd place overall in Fingerstyle Guitar.