Véronique Piron, originally French flutist, is a shakuhachi performer and teacher in the style of Yokoyama Katsuya (KSK) who awarded her a shihan licence in 2002 in Japan whilst a recipient of a Lavoisier research grant. She is a founding member of the ESS, and has been a teacher and co-organiser of several ESS Summer Schools.
Based in Brittany she is currently coordinator of the Broceliande conservatory, where she also teaches free improvisation and World Music. After Covid, a small shakuhachi community has been born there.
Moving between tradition and creation, she has worked with composers and musicians on intercultural projects which have enabled her to develop her own compositions (CD Suspended Flow). She is exploring a digital (finger) approach to the 5 holes of the shakuhachi, and brought a new shakuhachi duet piece ”Binioù
braz” for WSF Texas 2025 (premiered with Furuya Teruo).
She has collaborated intensively with creative pianist Lydia Domancich (CD Wake, with Fumie Hihara invited on koto), with Bartabas and his equestrian theater Zingaro on a long tour with ”Ex Anima”, she met with Alan Stivell, Wadaiko Tokara/Fenikstaiko, actress Asai Hiromi, etc