Hidemi Saito

Hidemi Saito (1933-2008) was born in Kyoto in the year 1933. He graduated from the composition department of Kyoto University of the Arts. He was one of Japan's leading electronic organists. He's also a famous composer in the 1960s - 1980s Electone world. He's also an Emeritus Professor of Faculty of Music in Tokushima Bunri University, also a Professor of Special Advisor on the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He's always the top player of Electone at that time, other then Shiro Michi, Koichi Oki, and Shigeo Sekito. In 1969, he performed in Europe, and called as a "Keyboard Magician". Since then, he has participating in lots of arts arrangements around 37 times overseas, including the US and all across Asia. He's also a Japanese keyboardist was one of the pioneer musicians interpreting the Yamaha's Electone organ with occidental and latin instrumental music in Japan at the early 70s, main goal to promoting the Yamaha Electone organ series for years. He had also performed with various fields of music tournaments such as the "God of Aunipan Ard" Tournament, also composing "Arochi and Noh" for Japanese traditional arts and culture. His representative works include "Zama-style" Latin American Dawn, "Yamatai Kuni", and "Fubayashi Oyama", all of which was well received. In 1985, he had joined lots of concerts and competition in various cities in Mainland China, and he was very popular indeed. A year later, in the year of 1986, he joined various concerts in China's big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. He was honored as a special advisor to Ryorakuin. The number of stage appearances of him was around 3400 times in a year, with a total of more than a 100 of collections of his marvelous Electone arrangements. Sadly, he died later in the year 2008.