Teachers – 15th International Shakuhachi Festival Prague

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.

Naoko Kikuchi

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

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

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