奈良出身のアラブのお琴カーヌーン奏者。

もともとはピアノで音楽活動をしていたが、2009年に日本のアラブ音楽の奏者から薦められカーヌーンを始める。

カイロ、チュニス、イスタンブル、イズミル、アンカラ、アテネ、クレタ島等へ度々渡航し、カーヌーンの奏法及びアラブ音楽やトルコ音楽等の理論を学ぶ。

日本では珍しいカーヌーン奏者としてベリーダンスショーでの演奏、寺社仏閣での奉納演奏、NHKの番組での演奏など多岐に渡り活動。

また、済州や台湾での公演も果たす。

2017年よりドイツのベルリンへ拠点を移しジャンルもボーダーも越えて活動中。

フェスティバルへの出演、オペラハウスやベルリン・フィルハーモニーでの公演も果たしている。

また、2017年9月、カザフスタンの首都アスタナで開催された音楽フェスティバル、2019年4月、モロッコの古都メクネスで開催されたカーヌーンフェスティバルに参加、演奏を行う。

2019年9月にはベルリンで開催されたワールドミュージックのバンドのコンテスト、2. Creole ContestにてJapalというバンドで入賞を果たす。

Shingo Masuda is a Japanese kanun player, who is from Nara and was born in Osaka, Japan in 1986.
He started learning the piano when he was a child and later experienced playing the percussion, so he had performed at gigs as a pianist before he started playing the Kanun.
In 2009, since some Arabic music players in Japan recommended him playing the kanun and Arabic music, he went to Cairo, Egypt with a firm determination to learn both.
He learned the basics of Kanun from some Kanun masters such as Saber Abdelsattar during his two-month stay in Egypt.
Besides Egypt, he then went to Tunis (Tunisia), Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara (Turkey), Crete and Athens (Greece), where he learned kanun technique and modal music theory of Arabic/Turkish music. 
During his career, he has performed in various situations such as at some big/small festivals, for the program of Japan Broadcasting Corporation, at some temples and shrines and so on.
He has performed as a member of some bands of various music genre and collaborated with many musicians, dancers and artists.
From 2012 until his moving to Berlin in 2017, he performed in Taiwan every year.
In 2016, he participated in the workshop led by the world-wide famous kanun player Göksel Baktagir at Labyrinth Musical Workshop in Crete, Greece, where one can learn various kinds of modal music theory.
There he met/performed with a large number of amazing musicians from all over the world, which made a major influence on his career after the trip, especially on his full-scale Greek music activity.
In the same year he performed at World Music Oreum Concert (as a part of “East Asia Cultural City” hosted by Nara Prefecture) in Jeju Island, South Korea as a member of “Nara Gakufu” (Nara Score).
In 2017, he participated in the ethnic musical competition in Astana, Kazakhstan, where various Central Asian music/dance inspired him with ideas for his own music.
In March 2017, he moved to Berlin to broaden his horizons.
He has obtained many chances to perform there, such as Karneval der Kulturen, Komische Oper, Werkstatt der Kulturen, and Turkish choirs.
Presently he plays with many musicians from various countries, such as Germany, Syria, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, France, Italy, US, Palestine and so on.

2015 Qanun.3 1st Album „Nassam alayna el hawa“

2017 Qanun.3 2nd Album „Ya Rayah“