佐藤豊彦
At Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Satoh studied music history with Tatsuo Minagawa and guitar with Kazuhito Ohosawa. In 1968, Satoh came to Europe. He studied lute with the pioneering lutenist Eugen Müller-Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland.
He gave his first guitar recital in the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall in 1965. At Rikkyo, he also began his studies of the lute. Two years later, in 1970, he recorded the first LP devoted entirely to the solo Baroque lute.
Since then he has recorded extensively for Philips, Telefunken, Electric and Music Industries, Harlekijn, and Records.
He has been involved in over 50 ensemble recordings, with such artists as Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Elly Ameling. He has concertized throughout the world as soloist.
His October, 1982 debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York was praised in the New York Times. The critic Tim Page praised his "intensity and sense of drama" and "electric tension and rhythmic spring".
He has also performed and recorded with many chamber ensembles, including the group Alba Musica Kyo, which he formed.
In 1973, he became a professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland, a position he held until 2004. He has also taught numerous master classes in Italy (Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena), Germany, the United States of America, Canada and Japan. As a teacher of the baroque lute, he has advocated the use of gut strings with no metal admixtures, and of historically accurate performance techniques.
His 1987 book, "Method for the Baroque Lute" (Munich: Tree Editions) is widely used He has been actively composing, and performing and recording his compositions since 1981, including two CDs foreign
In 2000 he became the president of LGS-Japan (Lute & Early Guitar Society of Japan) and LGS-Europe.
