Steven Casano
Scholar & Shakuhachi
|
Steven Casano received a B.M. in piano from the Crane School of Music and Masters degrees in ethnomusicology and academic librarianship from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship where he studied shakuhachi with Ishikawa Toshimitsu and attended meetings of the Shakuhachi Kenkyuukai with Tsukitani Tsuneko at Osaka Gedai. In 2000, Steven was granted his Jun-shihan license from Yokoyama Katsuya and Ishikawa Toshimitsu and in 2001 his shakuhachi playing was featured on the soundtrack for the documentary, "Aloha Akebono." Steven's shakuhachi teachers in Hawaii have been Robert Herr and Riley Lee and he is currently on the piano faculty of the Punahou Music School.
|
|
Teachers
|
Publications
| Title | Kanji | Publisher | Year | Pages | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fron Fuke Shu to Uduboo: Zen and the Transnational Flow of the Shakuhachi Tradition to the West. University of Hawai'i Master of Arts in Music Thesis. | 2001 | 169 | English |
The International Shakuhachi Society - 2013