An evening of music for three shakuhachi with guitar, bass and drums, with Schlefer among both the composers and the performers.
An evening of music for three shakuhachi with guitar, bass and drums, with Schlefer among both the composers and the performers.
“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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