Shakuhachi Player
Claremont, CA
Rachel Rudich is an internationally known flutist specializing in contemporary music, repertoire with electronics, movement, and traditional, contemporary, and improvised music for shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flute.
Shakuhachi Player
Forest Knolls, CA
Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989.
Koto and Shakuhachi Group
Los Angeles, CA
Kozue Matsumoto, koto, and Rachel Rudich, shakuhachi, meld their love of traditional Japanese music with their expertise in contemporary and experimental forms.
Japanese Music Ensemble (Koto, Shakuhachi, Sheng, Taiko, Shinobue, and more)
Los Angeles, CA
Founded in 2015 at CalArts by the enthusiastic students who love Japanese music, led by Kozue Matsumoto.
Shakuhachi Player
Los Angeles, CA
Shawn has been studying the Shakuhachi for 15 years plus. Beginning his study around 2004 in Los Angeles.
Shakuhachi Player
Los Angeles, CA
I lived in Japan from 1984 thru 1994 studying shakuhachi under Koyama Seizan, a renowned Tozan master living in Kyoto.
Taiko, Shakuhachi, and Shinobue Player
Los Angeles, CA
Whether through Taiko drumming or composing music for chamber and staged concert performance and improvisation, Shih-Wei Carrasco-Wu is already proving himself to be a fresh face on Southern California’s performance arts scene.
Koto, Shakuhachi, and Shamisen Player
Oakland, CA
Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, an American of Japanese and Chinese descent, won the "Grand Prix" award for achieving the highest scores on his teaching examinations from the Sawai Soukyokuin Koto Conservatory in Tokyo, Japan in July 2006, surpassing many Japanese native candidates.
Bass shakuhachi Group
San Francisco, CA
A small band of reverent renegades, The Heavy Roots create sounds unknown to modern society. Founded by woodwind specialist, shakuhachi master and award-winning composer Cornelius Boots, they celebrate the low tones of the raw, earthy vertical bamboo flute of Japanese Zen Buddhism
Shakuhachi Player
Santa Rosa, CA
Elliot Kanshin Kallen plays the shakuhachi, the traditional Japanese end-blown bamboo flute.
