演奏者
Artists
The musicians with a page of their own: who they are, who they learned from, and their recordings here. Those who shared their recordings with Kotone themselves come first.
Kakizakai Kaoru柿堺香
Kakizakai Kaoru was born in 1959 in Chichibu, Saitama. He took up the shakuhachi in his early twenties and became a student of Yokoyama Katsuya, one of the great players of the 20th century, with whom he also recorded. He graduated from the NHK Traditional Music Conservatory and won the Kumamoto All Japan Hōgaku competition.
Riley Lee
Riley Lee began playing the shakuhachi in Japan in 1971 and received his shakuhachi name, Kōho, in 1975. He studied with three masters of the 20th century, Hoshida Ichizan II, Sakai Chikuhō II and Yokoyama Katsuya, and in 1980 became the first non-Japanese grand master (dai shihan) of the instrument. In the 1970s he was also the first non-Japanese professional taiko player, as a founding member of the group now called Kodo.
Etsuko Chida
Koto player and singer. Her recording of the kumiuta Omoigawa comes from Shsk'h Vol. 02 – Koto Kumiuta (2008), which she released under CC BY-NC.
Zhang Peijian張沛堅
Erhu and gaohu player. His recordings of Erquan Yingyue, Jiang He Shui and the Cantonese pieces Yu Da Bajiao and Lianhuan Kou were recorded and shared on Wikimedia Commons by David290 under CC BY-SA 4.0.