Yerasimos Dimovasilis

Yerasimos Dimovasilis has been involved in music from an early age. In 2002, he began studying the shakuhachi and soon specialized in the traditional honkyoku repertoire. He studied with teachers such as Kiku Day, Tony Clark, Kaoru Kakizakai and Seiun Saruta, among others. Since 2011 he has focused exclusively on the Kinko-ryū tradition and has continued his studies under Gunnar Jinmei Linder, expanding his repertoire in both honkyoku and jiuta sokyokū works. He currently holds the shihan diploma of the Chikumeisha school and teaches shakuhachi in Greece.

Since 2010, he has introduced the shakuhachi to Greek audiences through numerous concerts and educational activities. Through workshops and lectures, he presents historical and organological aspects of the instrument, while also offering participants hands-on experience in playing this distinctive flute.

In parallel with his performance and teaching activities, he works as a sound healer and explores the therapeutic and meditative qualities of the shakuhachi often in combination with gongs, singing bowls, and other sound healing instruments.

Since 2016, he has been a member of the Japanese taiko ensemble Atene Daiko, with which he has performed extensively and composed and arranged works that combine these two traditional Japanese instruments, shakuhachi and taiko.