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Please click on the name in the alphabetical list below for more information Shakuhachi Players
Koto and Shamisen Players
Shakuhachi Players:
Clive Bell is a musician and composer specialising Clive’s solo shakuhachi CD was re-issued on the ARC label in 2005 and he recently released three duo albums: 'Sleep It Off' with Mike Adcock (on Emanem); 'The Geographers' with Sylvia Hallett (Emanem); and 'Mystery Lights' with David Ross (Metier). He also writes for Wire magazine.
Michael has been teaching full time at SOAS, University of London, since 1986 and is particularly interested in the jiuta-sokyoku repetoire of Kinko–ryû shakuhachi. As well as teaching and recording, he has performed widely in the UK and is the founder member of the London Hogaku Ensemble, has featured in numerous solo and ensemble performances with the Anglo-Japanese Collective and as an accompanist in recitals with visiting traditional Japanese performers in the UK including Kikuchi Teiko, Matsumura Homei and Kyoto Eirakukai, and Nagai Seiho. He is currently also a member of the sankyoku ensemble ‘Hibiki’ and of the SOAS Japanese Music Society.
www.swaj.org.uk/artists/michael-coxall
After returning to Europe she completed her BA Ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London, and also studied improvisation with Clive Bell and composition with Daniel Chua at King’s College, London. She completed her MFA Performance at Mills College, California, in 2005 where she focused on contemporary music and improvisation under Fred Frith, Jon Raskin, Joelle Leandre and others. Kiku is currently a doctoral candidate at SOAS in performance and ethnomusicology and is exploring the possibilities of playing the ji-nashi shakuhachi in contemporary music Kiku has performed widely in the US and the UK with various performers including Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvosier, Carla Kihlstedt, Alvin Curran, Willie Wynant, John Raskin, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser and Clive Bell.
Since then, Jim 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.
Gunnar 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 has made a number of CD's 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.
Okuda-sensei has specialised in playing long ji-nashi shakuhachi, up to 3 shaku 4 sun in length (over 1 meter), and plays solo honkyoku (the repertoire of the komusô, the mendicant monks of Zen Buddhism during the Edo period (1603-1867) and also improvisation. He has performed widely throughout Japan as well as in Europe, the US and Canada.
In 1996, Brian started playing the shakuhachi as an outgrowth of his Buddhist practice and his insatiable desire to learn new and challenging instruments. After seven years of study in New York he received his jun-shihan from the Jin Nyôdô branch of Kinko-ryû from James Nyoraku Schlefer. Shortly after that he released a honkyoku recording 'Purple Field' and also established the jazz 'Shakuhachi Club NYC' which is a jazz/world music band with branches in New York City, Milwaukee, Reykjavik and San Francisco. Presently Brian teaches at his Tairaku An dojo in Milwaukee and also performs regularly on shakuhachi in the US and in Europe. He is a founder and administrator of the World Shakuhachi Forum at www.shakuhachiforum.com and specializes in long, wide bore ji-nashi flutes.
Koto and Shamisen players
Shino is also the founder member of the SOAS Japanese Music Society where she teaches shamisen, koto and singing. She has performed in many concerts and given workshops within the UK, especially with the sankyoku ensemble “Hibiki”.
Iwamoto, Michiko is a jiuta sangen musician who is also an Ikuta-ryu sôkyoku and 17 string koto player. She began studying koto at the age of five under Kumagai, Utahiro and in 1993 was awarded the Kusunoki Sokyoku prize. In 1996, she began learning the shamisen and received her Ikuta Seiha-ryû Teaching Certificate (jun-shihan) in 1999. Two years later she entered the Seiha School of Music and received her Master's Certificate (shihan). After graduating, she was selected as a research student at the same school and is continuing her studies of shamisen under Okuda, Kazuko (Masako) and koto under Hisamatsu, Ayako (Masasae).
Presently, Noriko is on the permanent Executive of the Ikuta-ryû Sôkyoku Association and is also a member of the Kuyokai, the Nihon Sankyoku Kyôkai Association and the Ikuta-ryû Kyôkai Association.
Okuda-sensei is the third generation heir to the founder of the Ikuta-Seiha school of koto music (Seiha Hôgakukai) and is a professor of the Ikuta-Seiha school of music (Seiha Ongakuin). As well as her distinguished career as a performer and teacher in Japan, she has also participated in recitals in Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines,
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Michael Coxall studied shakuhachi in Japan for many years under the legendary Chikumeisha Kinko-ryû master and ‘Living Cultural Treasure’, the late Yamaguchi, Goro and still continues his studies with Mizuno, Kohmei on regular visits to Japan.
Kiku Day is a ji-nashi shakuhachi player from Denmark with roots from Japan, America, Russia and Ireland and is now based in London. With a background in piano and flute, she spent over ten years in Tokyo studying honkyoku on ji-nashi skakuhachi under Okuda, Atsuya. 
Jim Franklin, who is from Australia, began learning shakuhachi with Riley Lee in Sydney and then in Japan with Furuya, Teruo and then with Yokoyama, Katsuya from whom he received his shihan (master) title in 1996. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1998 for his dissertation on contemporary composition techniques for shakuhachi in combination with both western and Japanese instruments, including electronics.
Gunnar Jinmei Linder went to Japan in 1985 and started to study the shakuhachi under Yamaguchi Goro (1933-99, Designated National Treasure). In 1997, he received a Master's degree in Traditional Japanese Music from Tokyo University of Arts (Tokyo Geidai), and in 1998 he received his professional Kinko-ryû shakuhachi shihan license and the name 'Jinmei' from his teacher.
After a twenty-year career as a professional jazz trumpeter in Japan, Okuda, Atsuya turned his musical focus to shakuhachi and in 1985 opened ‘Zensabô’, a studio in Kokubunji, Tokyo, to promote the dying arts of playing and making
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 nohkan and shinobue with Nishikawa, Kohei. 
Brian Tairaku Ritchie has been a full time professional musician for over 30 years. He first came to prominence in 1982 as a bassist/multi-instrumentalist with his band Violent Femmes, which specialises in acoustic rock, jazz, and folk music. Over the past 25 years, the band has performed on tours at more than 2,000 concerts in over 30 countries and has received many gold and platinum records.
Arisawa, Shino is an ethnomusicology doctorate research student at SOAS, University of London, where she also gained her Masters degree in 2001. Her research centres on the perception of continuity and change within Japanese 'traditional' music looking specifically at the situation in jiuta-sôkyoku. Her research focuses on the different aspects of performance styles and philosophies of Japanese ryû-ha and she has therefore taken the unusual step of learning the shamisen, koto, and singing with various teachers from different ryu-ha, including Fuji Akiko, Hattori Kasumi, Kikuhara Koji, Ohara Nao, Shirane Kinuko, Tomiyama Seikin II, Yanagisawa Rie, and Yonekawa Hiroe. She is also a viola player and is currently a member of the Macha String Quartet and the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
Nakagawa, Noriko comes from a distinguished traditional 
Okuda, Masako began studying shamisen under her father, Yuize, Shin'ichi and her mother, the second grandmaster Nakashima, Yasuko and graduated from the Seiha-Hôgakukai in 1983 with a Teacher’s Certificate (jun-shihan). She was awarded her Master’s Certificate (shihan) in 1986, followed by her Grand Master's Certificate (dai-shihan) in 1998.
Okuda, Satoshi was born in Tokyo, in 1979 and became the 4th generation heir to the great koto performer and composer Nakashima, Utashito. Following in his great-grandfather`s footsteps, he began formal training on the koto in 1985 under his grandmother and grandmaster teacher, Nakashima, Yasuko. Satoshi continued his studies and graduated with a koto teaching certificate (jun-shihan) in 2000 and was awarded the Sōsaishō Prize. Under his grandfather, the composer and shamisen specialist Yuize, Shin'ichi, he was awarded his Master's Certificate (shihan) in 2003.
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