Emmanuelle Rouaud is a French musician specialising in shakuhachi, silver flute and baroque flute. She discovered the shakuhachi in 2006 and was fascinated by the possibilities of tone colour and sounds and began exploring the instrument.
Since 2013 Emmanuelle has been studying honkyoku/dokyoku with Furuya Teruo, head of Chikushin-kai, Tokyo and one of the principle teachers and director of the Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshūkan in Japan. She received her shihan license in January 2021.
Emmanuelle is also interested in traditional sankyoku ensemble playing and has received tuition from players like Gunnar Jinmei Linder, Zenyoji Keisuke and Christopher Yohmei Blasdel among others.
Her interest in developing new repertoire for shakuhachi has led her to a collaboration with French composer Henri Algadafe and premiering I Thought About Eva for shakuhachi and koto at the World Shakuhachi Festival in London in 2018 and most recently Un long chemin sinueux pour shakuhachi 2.4 et electronics at the European Shakuhachi Festival in Balbriggan (Irland) in 2023. Currently they are working on new compositions for electric guitar, electronics and shakuhachi.
Emmanuelle performs shakuhachi music regularly, most recently with koto players Kikuchi Naoko, Takahashi Gaho and Hihara Fumie. She also was one of the finalists of the honkyoku competition at the KSK’s 30th anniversary event in 2019 in Bisei, Japan.
Emmanuelle Rouaud lives and works near Paris, France. There she co-organises the annual Furuya Teruo/Onishi Mizuka workshop in Paris, developing shakuhachi classes at Pôle Musiques & Théâtre in Montigny-le-Bretonneux and offers private shakuhachi tuition.
She is a European Shakuhachi Society (ESS) Board member since 2020 and after two years as co-editor of the ESS newsletter ‘Bamboo’, she currently holds the position of Treasurer.