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A note on titles: _________________________________________________________________ Please click on the name in the alphabetical list below for more information Teachers from Japan
Teachers and lecturers from Europe
Teachers from Japan:
FURUYA Teruo was born in 1949 in Osaka. At the age of 18, he commenced playing shakuhachi, and became a disciple of YOKOYAMA Katsuya two years later. In 1971 he completed the course at the NHK Special School of Traditional Japanese Music, and graduated from Tokyo Gakugei (Education and Liberal Arts) University. In that year he also passed the NHK Traditional Japanese Music Audition. In subsequent years he held koto and shakuhachi ensemble recitals as well as solo shakuhachi recitals, winning Third Prize and Special Prize at the second Pan Music Festival in 1979. In the 1980s he undertook numerous overseas concert tours, including with the Japanese percussion ensemble Ondeko-za in Holland and Spain. In Japan he was active as a participant in audio and video recordings with YOKOYAMA-sensei, and he revealed his commitment to new music in recordings such as Nihon no Hibiki, a collection of compositions by FUNAKAWA Toshio. He continued to give solo recitals, as well as writing about the music of the shakuhachi.
Musical composition and recording and writing about the shakuhachi have long been part of FURUYA’s activities. His CDs include Shakuhachi Sui-Soh (shakuhachi solo) and Kangenhi-sho (shakuhachi in duet with ÔNISHI Mizuka, koto). He is the author of a shakuhachi training manual, as well as the editor of honkyoku scores and the scores of works by FUKUDA Randô. FURUYA Teruo’s extensive contribution to the growth of the shakuhachi in recent decades in Japan and overseas make him a central figure in the Japanese and international shakuhachi circles.
^ ÔNISHI-sensei is a frequent musical partner of FURUYA Teruo; with him, she recorded the CD Kangen-hi-sho – (“A World of Shakuhachi and Koto”) in 1996. In addition to performing with FURUYA-sensei, she is currently lecturer in Japanese music and music instruments in the Graduate School of Education, University of Shimane, lecturer in Japanese music, Department of International Cultural Exchange, Tottori College, and member of the committee, The Foundation of Tottori for Cultural Exchange. Her academic publications focus on the traditional musics of Korea and Japan.
WATANABE Haruko holds a daishihan (grand master) licence from Seiha H?gaku Kai, Ikuta school of koto, and is active in a wide range of music performance which includes Japanese traditional music (h?gaku), but also goes beyond it into modern styles. WATANABE-sensei has performed around Japan since 1989, in China, Australia and Europe. She is currently director of the ensemble "Aya no Kai", and head of "Ensemble Nipponia" (Pro Musica Nipponia), Ehime Branch. In 2002 and 2003 she performed with the German Henschel Quartett. Through her engagement with Pro Musica Nipponia under its instigator, the composer MIKI Minoru, WATANABE-Sensei has developed an acute awareness not only for the performance of traditional Japanese music, but also of modern styles. This extends to her expertise on nijûgen, the 21-stringed koto championed by MIKI and frequently employed in his music and in WATANABE-sensei’s performances and recordings. Apart from recordings with Pro Musica Nipponia, she has also recorded Mizuho, a CD of compositions by MIYATA Kôhachirô, with Andrew MacGregor (shakuhachi). Teachers and lecturers from Europe
Since then, Franklin has been an active performer and teacher in Europe and Australia, including at the annual Australian shakuhachi festivals and the world festivals in 1998, 2002 and 2004, and at the first Pan-European Shakuhachi Summer School 2006, in London. Following that event, Franklin was nominated as Chairperson of the newly-formed European Shakuhachi Society. Many of Jim Franklin’s compositions for shakuhachi have appeared on CD, under the Celestial Harmonies label. For many years he also studied Zen with the American Zen master Robert Aitken, Rôshi. In all his teaching, performing and cultural activities, he strives to impart a sense of the deep spirituality which the instrument and its music can evince. Since 2004, Franklin has been living and teaching near Nuremberg, Germany.
Andreas Gutzwiller was born in 1940 in Germany, but grew up and received his basic education in Basel, where he also now lives. From 1968 to 1974 he studied Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Univeristy of Berlin and at Wesleyan University, USA. At Wesleyan University, in 1970, he began studying shakuhachi with Araki Kodô V; he subsequently continued his studies under Kawase Junsuke III, initally at Wesleyan University, und later in Tokyo. In 1974 he was awarded a PhD from Wesleyan Unviersity for a thesis on the history and music of the shakuhachi. Following this, in 1976, he received his shihan (master) licence of the Chikuyûsha of the Kinko-school. His return to Europe was marked by numerous concerts throughout the continent. 1980 brought a turning point in the significant academic career of Gutzwiller: he commenced teaching shakuhachi at the Academy of Music in Basel, one of the few European academic institutions to offer a teaching programme including the instrument, From 1994 until his retirement in 2005, he was head of the Department for Non-Western Music at the Academy. Andreas Gutzwiller’s creative output extends through the academic and musical domains. He has released numerous CDs of shakuhachi music, primarily on the Jecklin Edition label, and has written extensively about the history and theory of the music of the shakuhachi. As a performer, he has been deeply engaged in developing interest by composers in writing for the instrument.
He received the title of dai shihan (grand master) 0f the Tozan school, and became the representative of the Shin-Tozan Ryû in France. He studied cello as well, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, with Maurice Gendron and Jacqueline Heuclin. Sôzan Kariya has many musical activities in France, Belgium, Japan, Germany and England. Notably, he had much success at the Womad Festival in London with his solo shakuhachi recital. He has been seen on French national television, on the 3rd Channel, at the Pop Club of José Arthur with Richard Boringhé, and at Musicora at the stand of Radio France. He has given concerts at the Guimet Museum and at the André Jacquemart Museum in Paris, at the conservatorium of Kremelin-Bicêtre, at Cabourg, at Hilden and at Düsseldorf in Germany. He performs every Spring at the Palais des Congrès at Versailles. In addition to his activities as concert artist, Sôzan Kariya is professor of shakuhachi and cello at the school of music of the SNCF and a society member of the SACEM.
Jean-François Lagrost Né en Alsace, Jean-François LAGROST étudie la flûte traversière à Mulhouse puis à Paris. Lauréat de nombreux concours nationaux et internationaux, il enseigne actuellement cet instrument aux conservatoires d’Asnières et du Kremlin-Bicêtre, près de Paris. Parallèlement à ses études instrumentales, il étudie la musicologie et l’ethnomusicologie à l’université de Paris-Sorbonne, où il obtient un DEA de musique du XXe siècle. Il débute le shakuhachi en 2000 avec le grand maître Sôzan KARIYA. Maître-assistant (jun-shihan) de l’école Tozan depuis 2004, il se produit régulièrement en concert au Japon et en France, avec des instrumentistes japonais ou occidentaux, notamment l’Ensemble de flûtes de Paris. Il a contribué récemment au Lexique des musiques d’Asie orientale de François PICARD, éditions You Feng. Jean-François Lagrost, who was born in Alsace (France), studied concert flute in Mulhouse and Paris. Armed with many prizes from French and international flute competitions, he is now teaching in Asnières and Le Kremlin-Bicêtre conservatoires near Paris. During his studies, he studied musicology and ethnomusicology in Paris-Sorbonne University, where he achieved a Masters in 20th century music. He began to play shakuhachi in 2000 with Grand Master Sôzan KARIYA. Lagrost received his Tozan-ryû Assistant Master certificate (junshihan) three years ago. He regularly performs in Japan and France with both Japanese and Western instrumentalists, notably the Ensemble de flûtes de Paris. He recently contributed to Dr François Picard’s Lexique des musiques d’Asie orientale (East Asian Music Glossary), published by You Feng.
Daniel Lifermann
Linder is mainly concerned in teaching and performing the traditional shakuhachi repertoires; solo honkyoku pieces, and classical jiuta-sôkyoku ensemble pieces. He is also involved in various cross-cultural projects, involving a variety of instruments, styles and genres, still with the traditional sound in mind. Gunnar Linder has made a number of CDs and other recordings and study videos and teaches shakuhachi both in Japan and Europe. He is a member of the Kinko-ryû Kyôkai, Nihon Sankyoku Kyôkai, Komusô Kenkyû-kai and is Head of a Tokyo-based local branch of Chikumeisha, as well as the European branch. He is an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the European Shakuhachi Society.
Véronique Piron is a French flutist and flute teacher and has been playing shakuhachi since 1992, firstly with IWAMOTO Yoshikazu in France and then with YOKOYAMA Katsuya, from whom she received her shihan license, and with FURUYA Teruo in Japan under a 'Lavoisier' scholarship from the French Foreign Affairs Ministry between 2000 and 2002. In Japan, she was also introduced to nôkan and shinobue with NISHIKAWA Kôhei from Pro-Nipponia group. After returning to France she received a State Diploma in Traditional Music (Japanese Music, shakuhachi) in 2004. Piron started to teach shakuhachi in western France and Paris in 1996, and recently started to teach in Brussels in Belgium. Since then she has created workshops to extend an understanding of the styles and spirit of Japanese music for children, adults, musicians and teachers in local and national conservatories, places where she is actually introducing the shakuhachi as possible choice in music studies. She is also an active performer in France and abroad including regular work at the Music Museum in Paris, the International Shakuhachi Summit in Tokyo in 2002 and the International Shakuhachi Concert in Bisei in 2004. Following the first Pan-European Shakuhachi Summer School (London, 2006), at which she taught and performed, Véronique was nominated for the role of Secretary of the European Shakuhachi Society. |
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