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European Shakuhachi Summerschool 2009 in Leiden.

This year there will be a European shakuhachi summerschool 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.

The summerschool will be in Leiden.

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 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.

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:

Yoshio
Kurahashi
:

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."

Gunnar
Linder
:

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-ryű Shakuhachi.

Horacio
Curti
:

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.

Vlastislav
Matousek
:

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).

Steve
Cohn
:

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.

Tilo
Burdach
:

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.

Kees
Kort
:

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.

For more information:
See http://www.shakuhachi.nl/shakuhachi/shakESS09.html


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Programma Rijksmuseum voor Volkerenkunde,
Steenstraat, Leiden:

Optredens van Kees Kort - Shakuhachi,
      Regelmatig
ook in samenspel met leerlingen van het Nederlands Shakuhachi genootschap KAITO:

2009:

24 mei

7 juni

28 juni

Aanvang is 12:00 uur en het duurt tot 13:00 uur.

Toegang is inbegrepen in het kaartje van het museum.

Voor meer info: http://www.rmv.nl/ (nieuw webadres) (zie activiteitenagenda)
 


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Het lestraject:
        -  Er zijn 6 nivo’s
            -  Elk nivo bestaat uit 6 lessen
            Bij elke les krijgt u lesmateriaal: theorie, oefeningen, etc. ((bij de prijs inbegrepen)
            De lessen volgen het KAITOshakuhachilesboek. Dit kost €20.
            -  De prijs per les is  € 25.
            Voor diegenen die het lestraject volgen bedraagt de prijs €130 bij voorafbetaling van 6 lessen
               
ineens.
            -  Voor meer info: kees@shakuhachi.nl

 

í  Lidmaatschap van het NSG KAITO is vereist (€ 10 per jaar).   í

De lessen zijn van steeds van 14 tot 16 u. en worden gegeven door Kees Kort.
        Adres: Van Galenstraat 1 te Leiden, telnr: 071 - 4016814

Voor beginners is het mogelijk een lesshakuhachi te `leasen`: tegen betaling van  € 100 (€ 75 borg) voor een periode van 6 maanden.
Ook kan NSG KAITO u helpen bij de aanschaf van een shakuhachi.

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