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- Biography: Gould, Michael Chikuzen -
Michael “Chikuzen” Gould lived in Japan from 1980-1997 and has studied the shakuhachi under renowned master Taniguchi Yoshinobu (1983-present) and master Yokoyama Katsuya (1987-1994). During that time, Gould earned a Shihan (master teaching certificate) in 1987 and Dai Shihan (Grand Master) certificate in 1991, one of only a handful of non-native Japanese to do so.
While living in Japan he taught and performed shakuhachi, appeared on television and radio and gave numerous lecture demonstrations in an attempt to heighten awareness and appreciation of the shakuhachi. In 1996 he returned to the U.S. where he taught shakuhachi and Zen Buddhism at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio and at Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio until 1998.
Although based in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he sometimes teaches and lectures at the University of Michigan, Michael is often traveling around the country giving special masters workshops to teachers and students in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Boulder Colorado. He has performed over four hundred times since his return to the U.S. at numerous universities, art museums and galleries, private gatherings and festivals and has been a teacher at the Shakuhachi Summer Camp at Boulder, Colorado in 1998 and 1999.
Michael has produced a technical manual for shakuhachi practitioners with Mr. Taniguchi Yoshinobu titled “How To Play Classical Shakuhachi”, book one. Most recently, Mr. Gould has been working with the Dance Company of Ann Arbor, performing a modern presentation based on the works of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and with University of Michigan percussionist Michael Gould with whom he has written a series of songs for percussion and shakuhachi which they are currently recording.
Speciality: Shakuhachi
Email: chikuzen@earthlink.net
Homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/~chikuzen/
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