[Shaku] Shigeo Tachibana to visit SF Bay Area in March

Shakuhachi virtuoso Shigeo Tachibana will be visiting the SF Bay Area in
March and will be available for a workshop, most likely on Saturday
March 19th. Tachibana san has a wide variety of experience, as can be
seen from his bio below, and can teach according to the interests of
workshop attendees. Let me know if you would be interested in attending
the workshop and in addition if you have any preferences regarding what
to cover in the workshop.

Shigeo Tachibana , graduated with a Grand Master's degree from Tozan
style music,
studying under Narita Rokuzan.The versatile Mr. Tachibana continued
studies on
the shakuhachi in the classical Kinko style and Huke music (formaly
known as Zen music)
from Master Kifu Mitsuhashi ,one of the most prominent shakuhachi
performers in Japan.
Mr.Tachibana has won numerous competitions demonstrating his expertise
on the shakuhachi.
These competitions included the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Network)
contests, where he was
given distinction in both modern and traditional forms of shakuhachi
music , Winner of Japan Shakuhachi
association's completition 2004,2005, the "Breeze" Young Musicians
Competition, "Zenkoku Hougaku"competition ,nationally broadcast by NHK.

-- Karl Young
karlshak@sonic.net

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Received on Tue Jan 25 08:09:35 2011