- July 2008 Invited Performer/Instructor at the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival, Sydney, Australia.
- 2007 Instructor at Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies, Colorado, USA.
Instructor at European Shakuhachi Summer school in France.
Performed “November Steps” with the Orchestra Nipponica Orchestra conducted by Tetsuji Honna in Hanoi Vietnam.
- 2006 Performer/Instructor at the 6th Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Canberra, Australia.
Performed in Portland, Seattle (funded by The Japan Foundation).
Performed at the 2st Hawaiian Shakuhachi Festival, Hawaii (funded by The Japan Foundation).
- 2005 Performed at the 1st Hawaiian Shakuhachi Festival, Hawaii.
Performed in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Valladrid in Spain
Instructor at Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies, Colorado, USA.
Performed “November Steps” in Germany with Erzgebirgsensembles Philharmonic. Orchestra conducted by Noshi Takahashi.
- 2004 Performed at the 4th International Shakuhachi Festival, New York.
Performer/Instructor at the 5th Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Sydney, Australia.
- 2003 Performed at the 4th Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Brisbane, Australia.
Performed at the 1st Canadian Shakuhachi Festival, Vancouver, Cananda (funded by The Japan Foundation).
Solo CD "Koten Shakuhachi" Released on the Victor label.
- 2002 Performed at the Second Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Melbourne (funded by The Japan Foundation).
Passed the Third Victor Japanese Music Performer Audition.
Performed “November Steps” with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hiroyuki Iwaki.
Instructor at Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies, Colorado, USA.
Performed at the Third International Shakuhachi Festival, Tokyo.
- 2001 Performed “Eclipse” at the Special Fifth Memorial Concert for Toru Takemitsu.
Performed “November Steps” in Russia with St Petersburg Philharmonic. Orchestra conducted by Akira Naito.
Instructor at Rocky Shakuhachi Camp, Colorado, USA.
- 2000 Performed Toru Takemitsu’s “November Steps” with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit.
Performed Toru Takemitsu’s “Eclipse”, Seiji Ozawa’s Birthday Charity Concert.
Performed at the Second Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Brisbane, Australia.
- 1999 Performed at the First Australian Shakuhachi Festival, Sydney.
- 1998 Performed at the Second International Shakuhachi Music Festival, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- 1997 The Third Nagatani Kengyo Memorial, National Japanese Music Competition First Prize Shakuhachi Section, Overall Prize for Excellence.
- 1995 Participated in recording of CD’s:“Fukuda Rando Collection”,“Chikuin - Katsuya Yokoyama. The World of Shakuhachi”
- 1994 Performed at the First International Shakuhachi Music Festival, Bisei, Okayama
- 1991 Appeared in Katsuya Yokoyama’s video “Fukuda Rando Collection”.
- 1989 Performed in the Japanese Traditional Culture Exchange Society tour of Madagascar and Italy.
- 1987 Graduated from the 32nd NHK Traditional Music Conservatory.
- 1982 Graduated Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Engineering, Physics Department.
Studied shakuhachi with Katsuya Yokoyama after recommendation from first teacher Seido Saito.
- 1959 Born in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan.
Currently:
Lecturer, Tokyo College of Music
Full time Instructor, International Shakuhachi Kenshu-Kan
Instructor, NHK Culture Centre
President of the International Shakuhachi Kenshukan Chichibu School and Higashi Yamato School
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I am now available to teach lessons using the internet, by the exchange of mp3 sound files.
I feel there is a big demand for the teaching of Honkyoku style, but this has not been possible without direct access to a teacher skilled in this style.
I felt it would be possible for me to teach Watazumi-Yokoyama style Honkyoku using the internet for these reasons:
- I have been Yokoyama's student for over 25 years, and have been teaching for 20 years
- I have much experience teaching Watazumi-Yokoyama style Honkyoku outside Japan to foreign students
- I can teach in both English and Japanese.
- Many students now have easy access to broadband internet.
If you would like to learn the honkyoku style, you can record your playing as an mp3 file and attach it to an email. (wav files can be accepted, but they are very large, and your email provider may have size limits on attachments)
I will listen to it and send you back an mp3 recording of my comments (in English or Japanese) with better examples of shakuahchi play. (I can imitate your mistakes, and demonstrate the correct technique)
I don't think it's possible to correct every problem in one lesson, so you might need to have a number of mp3 lessons for one piece.
A limitation of this system is that I can't correct your embouchure style. So if you have chance to see me, please have a lesson with me in person.
The notation/sheet music you use should be the ones published by the Kokusai Shakuachi Kenshukan (available from me) or the ones available from shakuhachi.com
Please contact me before sending any files and I can give you information about the fee and other instructions.
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