Tag: contemporary music
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Marty Regan
The ESS commissioned Marty to compose a new group work that will be premiered at the Summer School. Marty is an established composer and Professor at Texas A&M University, writing for traditional Japanese instruments.
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Naoko Kikuchi
Naoko Kikuchi learned to play the koto from her mother and grandmother in her early childhood. She was also taught by Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai. She will lead workshops teaching traditional sankyoku.
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Riley Lee
Riley Lee is a shakuhachi teacher based in Australia. He became the first non-Japanese to attain the title of dai-shihan (Grand Master). He will be teaching KSK and Chikuho-ryu pieces.
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Kiku Day
Kiku Day is a shakuhachi player and ethnomusicologist from Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied honkyoku with Atsuya Okuda and has performed old and new pieces in major venues across the world. She is a founding member of the European Shakuhachi Society.
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Hélène Seiyu Codjo
Hélène Seiyu is a shakuhachi teacher and performer (Dai Shihan) from the Hijiri-Kai school, based in the Netherlands.
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Emmanuelle Rouaud
Emmanuelle Rouaud is a French musician specialising in shakuhachi, silver flute and baroque flute, and a board member of the European Shakuhachu Society.
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Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten Knaub is an artist, digital filmmaker and shakuhachi player and maker based in London and Paris. He is chair of the European Shakuhachi Society.
