Teachers


  • Kinya Sogawa

    Kinya Sogawa

    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.

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  • Genshin Seian

    Genshin Seian

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

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  • Akihito Obama

    Akihito Obama

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

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  • Ichiro Seki

    Ichiro Seki

    An award winning composer and master performer on the shakuhachi

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  • Naoko Kikuchi

    Naoko Kikuchi

    World famous Japanese arched zither koto virtuoso, Vice President of the Seigen Koto School in Akita, Japan

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  • Jean François Suizan Lagrost

    Jean François Suizan Lagrost

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

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  • Marek Kimei Matvija

    Marek Kimei Matvija

    A Czech master player of the shakuhachi

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  • Dietmar Ippu Herriger

    Dietmar Ippu Herriger

    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…

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  • Vlastislav Matoušek

    Vlastislav Matoušek

    A Czech leading shakuhachi player, composer and musicologist and the cofounder of the International Shakuhachi Festival Prague

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