The International Shakuhachi Society

Ralph Samuelson

Ralph Samuelson was trained in the classical tradition the Kinko school of shakuhachi under Goro Yamaguchi, Kodo Araki V, and Shudo Yamato, both in Japan and in the graduate World Music Program at Wesleyan University. He has performed the shakuhachi in numerous concerts of traditional and contemporary music in North America, Asia, and Europe, and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and music schools. He has been presented in radio and television broadcasts in the United States and Japan and has recorded for Lyrichord Records, Music of the World, and CBS Masterworks. He teaches the shakuhachi in New York, where he is also the director of the Asian Cultural Council.

Teachers

Students

Albums

	Music of the Shakuhachi Kinko and Meian honkyoku.
	Offerings Kinko and Meian honkyoku.

Tracks Recorded

	Shakuhachi	Album
	Choshi (Taizan Ha)	Offerings
	Ginryu Koku	Music of the Shakuhachi
	Hi Fu Mi Hachigaeshi no Shirabe (Kinko Ryu)	Music of the Shakuhachi
	Mukaiji Reibo	Japanese Music for Two Shakuhachi
	Ôshû Sashi	Offerings
	San'ya (Taizan Ha)	Music of the Shakuhachi
	San'ya Sugagaki	Music of the Shakuhachi
	San'ya Sugagaki	Offerings
	Shika no Tône (Kinko Ryû)	Japanese Music for Two Shakuhachi
	Shin Kyorei	Offerings
	Yoshiya Reibo	Offerings

Publications

Title	Kanji	Publisher	Year	Pages	Language
Review of Der Wahre Geist Der Leere performed by Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller		Asian Music 16, no. 2	1985	198-200
Some Aspects of the Kinko-ryu Notation including a Study of the Pattern-Units of Koku Reibo		Master of Arts, Wesleyan University	1971	187	English

The International Shakuhachi Society - 2013