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Kiku Day is a ji-nashi shakuhachi player from Denmark, with roots from
America, Japan, Ireland and Russia. Between 1989 and 2000, she studied
honkyoku with Okuda Atsuya in Tokyo, during which time she also studied
jinashi shakuhachi-making with Murai Eigorô.

Kiku is based in London, UK. After completing her MFA in Music
Performance and Literature at Mills College, Oakland, California, and
has now returned to London to do her Ph.D. at SOAS. She is currently
researching into the possibilities of playing contemporary music on the
ji-nashi shakuhachi.

Her interests in honkyoku, improvisation and contemporary music played
on the ji-nashi shakuhachi have created a unique sound and approach to
the instrument. She has performed throughout Europe, USA, Japan and New Zealand Zealand in everything from classical honkyoku concerts to
modern operas.

She is an shakuhachi activist and prime mover of the first-ever
European Shakuhachi Summer School, recently held at SOAS (2006), and
currently involved in the creation of the European Shakuhachi Society.

Speciality: Shakuhachi
Email: kiku@kikuday.com
Homepage: http://www.kikuday.com

Teachers:

Okuda Atsuya