Teachers


  • Markéta Fujita Reiter

    Markéta Fujita Reiter

    Markéta Reiter Fujita is a teacher of the Japanese tea ceremony school Urasenke, with the tea name Sōkei, and a player of the traditional Japanese instrument koto.

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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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  • Akihito Obama

    Akihito Obama

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

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  • Akihisa Kominato

    Akihisa Kominato

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

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  • Kenichi Tajima

    Kenichi Tajima

    Outstanding shakuhachi player, composer and a director of musical plays

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  • Kizan Kawamura

    Kizan Kawamura

    Laureate of the first prize at the Kumamoto National Hōgaku Competition

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  • Reison Kuroda

    Reison Kuroda

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

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  • Robin Tamura

    Robin Tamura

    Robin Ryūgo Tamura is a Shakuhachi Jun-Shihan licensed by Grandmaster Shawn Tairyu Head

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  • Gunnar Jinmei Linder

    Gunnar Jinmei Linder

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

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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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  • Dietmar Ippu Herriger

    Dietmar Ippu Herriger

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

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  • Marek Kimei Matvija

    Marek Kimei Matvija

    A Czech master player of the shakuhachi

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  • Aaro Senzui Haavisto

    Aaro Senzui Haavisto

    Aaro Haavisto (Senzui) is chairman of the Finland Shakuhachi Society, Ueda-ryu shakuhachi teacher, Japanese interpreter and flute maker based in Finland

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