Masashi Yamamoto is a double bass performer, mainly plays contemporary music and improvisation. He has been selected for the jointly organised project with the Concert Hall Shizuoka AOI and the ‘Momiji-zaka Project vol.2’ at the Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall. In recent years, he has expanded his activities to include concerts in Poland, Germany and France; in August 2023, he was awarded the Kranichsteiner Prize honorable mention for his solo performance at the Darmstadt Summer School of Contemporary Music; in January 2024, he organised a three-day, four-performance ‘Unplugged Theatre’ with two different programmes of unaccompanied solo performances. In May, he premiered a double bass concerto by Yasunoshin Morita as soloist. While setting it as his mission to revive and pass on works that are rarely performed again, in recent years he has been actively commissioning composers in Japan and abroad to expand his repertoire of solo contrabass works, and pursuing new musical expression with the contrabass. Born in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music.