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Musician and musicologist, David visited Japan in 1977 as an exchange student and entered the tutelage of shakuhachi master Junsuke Kawase III. In 1981, he returned to Japan on a Japanese Education Ministry scholarship to do graduate study at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, where he recieved his M. A. in musicology in 1985. Since 1982, David has been performing, teaching, lecturing, and writing about the shakuhachi and Japanese music both in Japan and around the world, and has made numerous performance appearances on Japanese television and radio. While he specializes in the classical traditions of Sankyoku ensemble and Kinko-ryu Honkyoku, his performance activities cover the full range of music today; everything from Japanese to Western, from classical to the avant garde. David was a visiting Japanese music lecturer and shakuhachi instructor at the College of Music at the University of Colorado, where he co-organized and prepared the World Shakuhachi Festival 1998 (July 5-11) at CU Boulder, and also lectures and instructs students at Naropa University. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches, lectures and performs around the US, in Japan and elsewhere.

Speciality: Shakuhachi
Email: shakudavid@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.coloradohealthsite.org/music/bios_david.htm

Teachers:

Kawase Junsuke III