Kinya Sogawa is a shakuhachi player whose playing bridges worlds of traditional and contemporary music. He creates his own instruments and his unique sound speaks to international audiences through concerts and famous Hollywood productions.

The present leader or kansu, 看主, of the group reestablishing the Komusō-Shakuhachi tradition and compiling the present repertoire of koten-honkykoku

A unique shakuhachi star player with a purely distinct sound of his own

The shakuhachi master, a laureate of many French and international awards

A Czech master player of the shakuhachi

A multi-instrumentalist, teacher of the flute, saxophone, clarinet and shakuhachi Dietmar studied shakuhachi at Itchoken, old shakuhachi temple of the komuso, which is part of the Saikoji temple complex in Fukuoka where he also served as a priest. After twenty-four years of studying shakuhachi with heads of Itchoken he was awarded a master title and…