Shakuhachi

John Kaizan Neptune

John Kaizan Neptune brings to the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) a new and dynamic sound and feeling entirely his own

Akihito Obama

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

Akihisa Kominato

Shakuhachi performer of the Kinko school and the third iemoto of the Kominato school of minyō (folksong)

Kenichi Tajima

Outstanding shakuhachi player, composer and a director of musical plays

Kizan Kawamura

Laureate of the first prize at the Kumamoto National Hōgaku Competition

Reison Kuroda

Laureate of the first prize at the International Shakuhachi Competition in London in 2018

Gunnar Jinmei Linder

Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Shihan (Chikumeisha) MA in Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku) PhD in Japanology (Stockholm University)

Vlastislav Matoušek

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

Dietmar Ippu Herriger

A multi-instrumentalist, teacher of the flute, saxophone, clarinet and shakuhachi

Marek Kimei Matvija

A Czech master player of the shakuhachi

Studied music since 1997, 10 years of classical guitar, then lute (baroque, renaissance, theorbo), majored in solistical lute at Sibeliusacademy (Helsinki University of the Arts) while simultaneously majoring in Japanese language and culture at University of Helsinki. While working as a Japanese interpreter, studied transverse flute making and playing with Keigo Takesa in Japan, then…