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2009
June 25-29, Loveland, Colorado

Beginner students:

This is absolutely the best context in which to get the 'bare bones' of shakuhachi techniques. If you have a lot of interest in the instrument but are not necessarily attached to studying only Japanese music, this Camp is perfect for you. You will receive technical instruction which will take you either towards Japanese music or towards whatever music you might be interested in. At this time in shakuhachi history, there is no comprehensive teaching system outside of the Japanese approach, so encountering Japanese musicians and learning Japanese notation is still the best way to understand the length and breadth of possibilities with your shakuhachi.

The aim of Camp for beginners is to give you a toolbox with which to work, and a vocabulary that will inform your future musical (or meditative) development. The instructors are kind, patient, caring and remember well their own first tentative steps into the shakuhachi world. We all feel like beginners no matter how far we may have come in our studies!

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Riley Lee will offer Ganzan Reibo, Azuma Jishi, Tori, Hifumi cho.

David Wheeler will offer Yachiyo jishi, Echigo jishi.

Yoshio Kurahashi will offer Horai, Etenraku, Ajikan, folksongs, Flower night on a Spring River.

Kaoru Kakizaki will offer Tsukigusa no yume, Hietsuki bushi, Sanya, Kokoribushi, Reibo.

Yoko Hiraoka will offer Yachiyo jishi, Echigo jishi, Tsukigusa no yume.

 

This list is subject to change.