Tag: Kinko-ryu
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Gunnar Jinmei Linder
Gunnar Jinmei Linder began studying shakuhachi in Japan in 1985 with Yamaguchi Goro (designated Living National Treasure). He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree as a soloist from Tokyo University of the Arts 1997, and was awarded shihan and the name Jinmei from Yamaguchi in 1998. Linder performed and taught professionally in Japan for…
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Yerasimos Dimovasilis
Yerasimos Dimovasilis has been involved with music from an early age, studying and performing on a wide range of instruments (flute, harp, guitar, percussion, and synthesizer etc) and from his teenage years he participated in recording projects while actively exploring diverse musical idioms. In 2002, he began studying the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi and soon…
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神 令 Rei Jin
Born in Tokyo in 1980, Rei Jin is the grandson of Nyodo Jin, a famous compiler of traditional shakuhachi honkyoku music, and as such has been intimately connected with classical Japanese arts from childhood. He studied the shakuhachi first with his father, Nyoshou Jin, and then with masters Reibo Aoki, Junsuke Kawase, Hozan Yamamoto, and…
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芦垣 皋盟 Ashigaki Kōmei
Ashigaki Kōmei studied shakuhachi under Kinko-ryu shakuhachi master Tanaka Kōmei from the age of 10. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, and completed the graduate course at the same university. Studied under Goro Yamaguchi (living national treasure). Graduated from the 45 th NHK Hogaku Gakusha Nurturing Society and passed the “Hogaku…
