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European

Shakuhachi Summer School
2009

in Leiden, the Netherlands.

This year's European Shakuhachi Summer School will be in
Leiden, the Netherlands.
It will be the first shakuhachi summerschool in Holland and it
will be organised by the Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO
together with the European Shakuhachi Society.

The date of the summerschool will be
         23, 24, 25 and 26 July.

Leiden: 2009 Japanjaar (Japan year)

Leiden is an old Dutch city, not too far from the coast of the North Sea, with a long past in the history of the Netherlands. It is located not too far from Schiphol, the national airport (about 20 minutes by train) and other important Dutch cities like Amsterdam (30 minutes), The Hague (20 minutes), Rotterdam (30 minutes) and Utrecht (45 minutes).

Also there is a long historic connection from Leiden with Japan and
Japanese culture. For instance: in Leiden is the Sieboldhuis. This
house was the location where Siebold showed his collections of
Japanese objects and artefacts as early as 1837 to an interested public.
And now, after 150 years, his former house is the location of the first
official Japan centre. (http://www.sieboldhuis.org/). (Philipp Franz
Balthasar von Siebold (1796 - 1866) was an originally German, later
to become Dutch physician; he emerged as the first European to
teach Western medicine in Japan and is therefor a wellknown person
to most of the Japanese)

In Leiden also is the National Museum of Ethnology (http://www.volkenkunde.nl/index.aspx?lang=en) that is famous for its impressive collection of Japanese artefacts and cultural objects. Then there is the University of Leiden: this is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by Prince William of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War.

This year, 2009, is a special “Japan year” in Leiden: because of the special relationship between Leiden and Japan, based on 400 years of trade relations: see http://www.400jaarhandel.nl/

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden)

In Leiden there is also a Japanese Soto Zen Meditation Centre, called Suiren-Ji (see http://www.zencentrum.nl/)

The Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO.

The summerschool will be organised by the Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO. This shakuhachi society was started in the 1997 by Kees Kort.
Kees Kort:”I started playing the shakuhachi at my age of about 40. I remember: when I was still a little boy about 7 or 8 years of age, I heard the shakuhachi for the first time, and its sound stayed in my head. I was not raised learning to play any musical instrument, but when I was about 17 years old I was jealous of my friends who could play so many instruments. So I decided I wanted to learn to play flutes: especially the sound of the Indian flute I loved very much. Later, when I was nearly 40, I learned where I could purchase a shakuhachi. My first shakuhachi was a wooden one, manufactured by the Japanese Zen On company. From the first moment I had this shakuhachi I felt very enthusiastic about it. I had only a table of grips, so I learned to play each pitch as good as I could. Later I learned that there existed an International shakuhachi society in England. When I became a member I found out that there were books, lesson books to learn to play the shakuhachi. That is how my road to blowing zen started…”
After some time I decided to start a Dutch shakuhachi society. To build a kind of organisation, a platform where people who were interested in the shakuhachi could find information and other people with the same interest in the Japanese instrument.
From the moment the Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO started to exist there were contacts with shakuhachi players from different countries all over the world. So we contacted Yoshikazu Iwamoto, who was living in England. He suggested me to buy a shakuhachi made by Tom Deaver. So I did and that is how the contact between Tom Deaver and the Dutch Shakuhachi Society started. He came over to Europe, visited my house (I was still living in Katwijk then, about 15 kilometres from Leiden). I organised small house concerts for friends and interested people. Later a woman from Australia - Vineta Lagzdina was her name, she was born in Lituania - came to visit me and again I organised a small house concert...

Location of the summerschool.

The summerschool in Leiden will be located in 2 places in the centre of Leiden.
First there is the  building called “het Leidse Volkshuis”. Here will be the
registration and all full-group meetings. (See picture, right)
A second location of the summerschool will be the music school of
Leiden, called BplusC. This building is on the Rapenburg, in the centre of
Leiden. Here will be the daily workshops and lessons.

The teachers.

The following teachers will join the 2009 European Shakuhachi Summerschool:

The only teacher coming from Japan. Yoshio Kurahashi visited the
Netherlands a number of times. He also gave workshops for the
students of the Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO.
“Kurahashi sensei is one of the great living masters of shakuhachi. He has
been very interested in the spread of shakuhachi outside of Japan and
travels to America regularly to perform, teach classes and offer workshops.”

(See: http://www.mujuan.us/)

Gunnar Jinmei Linder started studying the kinko style of shakuhachi in 1985,
and since 1986 under direct guidance of Gorô Yamaguchi (1933-99;
Designated National Treasure), the head of the Chikumeisha Guild of
Kinko-ryû Shakuhachi.

(See: http://www.shakuhachi.bz/)

Horacio Curti encountered the Shakuhachi for the first time while traveling on the
Himalayan region of India and decided to go to Japan to start his studies of the
instrument with Kakizakai Kaoru sensei. He obtained his Shakuhachi Shihan,
Shakuhachi Master degree, in 2004 from Yokoyama Katsuya.  Living in
Barcelona, Spain, he develops his playing around Koten Honkyoku, Western
Classical Contemporary Music and free improvised music together with
musicians and dancers.

(See: http://www.shakuhachi.es/)

Doc. Vlastislav Matoušek Ph.D. (1948) studied Composition
and post-gradual courses in Musical Theory at the Academy
of Performing Arts, the Faculty of Music in Prague where he
has been teaching ethnomusicology since 1991. There he
received his Ph.D. degree in theory of composition. Six
months as a fellow of Japan Foundation he studied
shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) playing at Master
Kifu Mitsuhashi and Japanese Traditional Music at Prof.
Osamu Yamaguti in Japan (1996).
Vlastislav Matousek organized in Prague, Czech, shakuhachi
meetings and courses for many years already. In 2007 and
in 2008 in Prague were shakuhachi summerschools, with teachers like Kifu Mitsuhashi, Christopher Blasdel and Kees Kort. In 2004 Matousek visited the Netherlands for a concert in Amsterdam. He also gave a workshop for the Dutch shakuhachi students.

(See: http://www.shakuhachi.cz/dilo/en/biography.htm)

A native of San Francisco, he performed as a blues pianist in Los
Angeles, where he began studying the shakuhachi flute at UCLA.
In 2008 Steve Cohn took part in a multi media Jazz festival in the
Netherlands as a jazz shakuhachi player. Played with Jazz saxophine
player Michael Moore.
In 2008 he also gave a workshop for the students of the Dutch
shakuhachi society.

(See: http://www.thestevecohn.com/)

Tilopa, a one time social scientist who did research on Latin America, has
studied quite a wide range of different musical instruments since early
childhood (recorder flutes, violin, guitar, piano, dillruba, svarmandal, santoor
etc), but found his real love about 20 years ago when he met with the
kyotaku and his flute master Koku Nishimura in Kumamoto/Japan. Since
that time he has studied the traditional 'honkyoku' music with his master
and Koryo Nishimura,  the son of Koku sensei. A never ending process
although he is playing the same songs over and over again…  At the same
time he has been experimenting with combining the kyotaku with other
western and eastern instruments (see his CD’s). He lives with his wife and
four cats in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Bavaria/Germany where
he is working as a kyotaku maker , kyotaku teacher and as a T'ai Chi
teacher. Occasionally he has been giving concerts in several European
countries and Germany.

(See: http://www.tilopa.de/)

Born in Bussum, the Netherlands in 1951. Started to play the shakuhachi in
1989. Had lessons from Akikazu Nakamura, Ichiro Seki, Yoshikazu Iwamoto,
Yoshio Kurahashi. Plays many traditional flutes from different countries, such
as ney, qawwal, zampona, toyo, suling, bansuri, kalyuka, etc. Started the
Dutch Shakuhachi Society KAITO in 1997.

(See: http://www.shakuhachi.nl)

Important information for interested students:

The European Shakuhachi Summerschool 2009 (ESS09):

(Arriving date: 22 July)

(The exact schedule will be published later)

(This hotel is about 25 minutes walking distant from the main location of the summerschool. But there is a direct bus connection (10 minutes) and there will be cars for necessary transportation)

                                      Address:

Paviljoen Wilhelmina/Het Witte Huis
Wilhelminapark 33
2342 AE  Oegstgeest
tel: +31 (0) 71 - 515 3853

See: http://www.hotelhetwittehuis.com/

This hotel is about 10 minutes walkin from the main location.

Address:

Hotel Golden Tulip Leiden Centre - Zuid Holland

Schipholweg 3
2316 XB  Leiden
tel:  +31 71 4083500

See: http://www.goldentulipleidencentre.nl/?Language=EN

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