Young Guitar Virtuoso Kaori Muraji performs with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Kazufumi Yamashita performing works by Rodrigo, Arnold, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Dyens. 20bit K2 Recording. Kaori Muraji was born in Tokyo in 1978. Her first guitar lessons were from her father, Noburu Muraji, when she was 3 years old. She won the top prize at the 1989 Junior Guitar Contest, and was the winner of the Student Guitar Competition in two consecutive years 1989 and 1991.