The European Shakuhachi Society

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  • The ESS Summer School Vejle 2017 Updates 4

    An updated Summer School Schedule has just been added to the Vejle 2017 website: vejle2017.shakuhachisociety.eu/schedule

  • Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin

    The ESS is saddened to report that Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin has passed away yesterday 30th May 2017. He suffered a heart attack.
    Ronnie’s contribution to the shakuhachi world outside Japan was immense. Many great players studied with him. The shakuhachi community outside Japan would not have been what it is today without Ronnie’s hard work and dedication. He was a very kind, supportive and helpful person. He will be greatly missed

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  • The ESS Summer School Vejle 2017 Updates 3

    The Early Bird Registration Period has now ended, but there is still plenty of time to register
    for this years’ European Shakuhachi Society Event in Vejle in Denmark!

    Visit the registration page here: vejle2017.shakuhachisociety.eu

    Hope to see you there!

  • The ESS Summer School Vejle 2017 Updates 2

    An updated Summer School Schedule has just been added to the Vejle 2017 website – Please have a look at  vejle2017.shakuhachisociety.eu/schedule

    There are only a few days left to catch the Early Bird reduced registration fee. Monday 15th May is the last day for Early Bird.

    Get your registration form here: vejle2017.shakuhachisociety.eu

  • The ESS Summer School Vejle 2017 Updates

    To all the European Shakuhachi Community

    You are all invited for the yearly European Shakuhachi Summer School in Vejle, Denmark! The website is up and running and the registration for early bird has begun.

    At the core of this year’s gathering is the notion of bonding together as a community. This year participants will have the choice to share all meals and stay under the same roof at a boading school. All 3 meals will be freshly made and brought to us from an award-winning café in Vejle.

    Many of the leading shakuhachi teachers in Europe will be present – and from Japan we will also have Kogetsu Maekawa, an outstanding teacher/performer of Kinpū-ryū, Myoan-ryū and Echigo style. From Europe, we will have Wolfgang Fuyūgen Heßler, Hélène Seiyu Codjo, Gunnar Jinmei Linder, Suizan Lagrost, Véronique Piron, Jim Franklin, David Hughes, Gina Barnes, Kiku Day, Naoko Kikuchi, Torsten Olafsson and José Seizan Vargas.

    The extra time we have together we will for example use to discuss WSF18 in London, so that the World Festival can become a festival for all of us.

    Check the website out here: https://vejle2017.shakuhachisociety.eu

  • Le Shakuhachi Japonais, Une Tradition Réinventée

    A new book about the shakuhachi has been published by Bruno Chikushin Deschênes.
    The book is published by Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris 2017. French language.
    How to order and more information can be found at:
    http://www.editions-harmattan.fr
    You can find a summary/press release in English here (PDF)

  • ESS Summer School 2017 Announcement

    Dates: 27 – 30 July 2017
    Place: Vejle, Denmark
    Venue: Grejsdalen Continuation School (Grejsdalens Efterskole)
    AddrESS: Grejsdalsvej 176, 7100 Vejle, Denmark
    Workshops: We will as usual have a large variety of workshops including several styles of honkyoku, shinkyoku, sankyoku, contemporary music, group pieces and improvisation.
    Teachers: Teachers will be a mixture of European players and a Japanese guest will be invited as well. More information to come.
    Concerts: Open mic concert, teachers’ concerts, student concert at the end.
    The venue:
    Grejsdalen Continuation School is a boarding school. This means we can all sleep, eat and participate in the workshops, lectures, meetings and other events at the school under the same roof. The Shakuhachi Summer School 2017 will thus be one of intimate character, at which spending time together is treasured more than at other events.

    The school has simple twin rooms for all participants to stay in. Depending on how many participants we will be, there may be some rooms left for people to stay in as single rooms.
    We will soon post information about the nearest hotels, so people who prefer to stay in a hotel can do so.

    More info and website will be forthcoming in early 2017.

  • The ESS Circle Of Advisers Was Further Enriched By 2 New Members

    We welcome Ruud Baanders and James Long!

  • New Committee Members And Advisers

    We welcome our new committee members: Nigel Puttergill takes on the role of Treasurer and our new publication team José Vargas & Philip Horan!
    Many thanks to the outgoing committee members – Joe Browning, Michael Soumei Coxall and Horacio Curti.

    Also we enriched our advisers group with new arrivals – Emmanuelle Rouaud, Markus Guhe and Christophe Gaston are now part of our Circle of Advisers.
    We are looking forward to work with you all and moving the ESS forward into the next decade.

    You can see the full list of committee members and advisers on the about-the-ESS/ESS-structure page

  • Barcelona 2016

    For a second time the European Shakuhachi Society Summer School was held in Barcelona, Spain and again it was a great succESS. This time we had two guests from Japan – KEISUKE Zenyoji and KAKIZAKAI Kaoru – as well as many profESSional players/teachers from Europe. We had more than 60 participants from all over Europe and a very wide program on offer, including various styles of Honkyoku and Sankyoku, contemporary, ensemble, min’yō, shakuhachi making as well as classes on shakuhachi & meditation and the body in relation to shakuhachi practice and a concert by the invited teachers at the beautiful Pedralbes Monastery in Barcelona. See the Barcelona 2016 website for the full program.

    Also, 2016 being our 10-year anniversary, we had the ‘Shakuhachi – New Voices’ concert which was curated from open submissions and aimed to show new players and the variety of talent emerging all over Europe. Thank you very much for all the submission and the great concert.

    And of course we also had a small birthday celebration!

    Thanks to all the teachers and of course all the participants!