James Nyoraku Schlefer and cellist Sahara von Hattenberger play duos and solos for two instruments that turn out to suit each other unusually well.
James Nyoraku Schlefer and cellist Sahara von Hattenberger play duos and solos for two instruments that turn out to suit each other unusually well.
“It takes a lifetime to learn the shakuhachi, so the sooner you start the longer it takes.”James Nyoraku Schlefer
Shakuhachi grand master and composer in New York, trained in the Kinko school and certified dai shihan in 2001. He teaches the solo honkyoku, the repertoire the komusō monks of Fuke Zen played as suizen, blowing zen, where the breath is the practice rather than the performance, and he brings the bamboo flute into Western chamber music.
View teacher profile →Direct meditative practice, zazen and everyday awareness in traditions rooted in Chinese Chan and its later forms.
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