The European Shakuhachi Society

Category: Summer School

  • Video from Paris 2015

    A small souvenir of the European Shakuhachi Summer School 2015 in Paris. Thanks to all participants! Video by Marine Bourserie.

  • Video From Paris 2015

    A small souvenir of the European Shakuhachi Summer School 2015 in Paris. Thanks to all participants! Video by Marine Bourserie.

  • Summer School Barcelona 2016

    Hello Shakuhachi enthusiasts from all around Europe and beyond.
    The European Shakuhachi Society Summer School 2016 will be held in Barcelona from 28th to 31st July 2016.
    As this is 10 years ago the first European Shakuhachi Summer School was held in London and the European Shakuhachi Society was created, we would like to celebrate this event with what shakuhachi players in Europe would like to do! Please come with suggestions on what you would like to do at the Summer School in Barcelona! Let us know: info@shakuhachisociety.eu or barcelona2016@shakuhacisociety.eu

    In the meantime check the Barcelona 2016 website for updates.
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  • Early Bird Registration Now Open!

    More information about ESS Barcelona 2016:
    barcelona2016.shakuhachisociety.eu

    Direct link to ESS Barcelona 2016 “Early Bird” registration page by ESMUC:
    www.esmuc.cat/eng

  • Anniversary Special #1: Shakuhachi New Voices

    Since the ESS event for this Summer in Barcelona, 28-31.07.2016, will serve as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the ESS, we wish to use this opportunity to experiment with new approaches. Some of these aim to improve our event model, while others attempt to allow participants, and especially ESS members, to assume a larger performative role in the Summer School, in order to reflect the developing level of participants’ playing skills, and thus their potential for a more active part as performers in concerts.

    This participants concert will be a curated concert (probably 28.07.2016, evening), aimed at advanced performers who are not teachers at the Summer School. Participants interested in performing at this concert are required to apply in advance to perform, and the curators will decide on the programme. The application procESS is described in detail below.

    A feature of this concert will be the premiere performance of the work 20151113, for shakuhachi and koto, by French composer Marc Kowalczyk. This premiere is to be performed by an ESS member, who will be selected through a procESS that begins with an application made in advance.

    For details of how to sent applications to perform in the participants’ concert and/or to perform the world premiere of a new shakuhachi composition please visit:

    barcelona2016.shakuhachisociety.eu/10-years (english)

  • One Week Left To Pick Up The Early Bird Reduced Fee

    Please visit:
    cost & booking information [english]
    matricula & precios [español]

  • The First Two Video Intros Have Been Released

    KEISUKE ZENYŌJI – teaching Kinpū-ryū Nezasa-ha repertoire and Kinko-ryū sankyoku at Barcelona 2016

    KAORU KAKIZAKAI – teaching honkyoku of the Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshukan, the lineage of Yokoyama Katsuya at Barcelona 2016

    Watch the short introductions at: barcelona2016.shakuhachisociety.eu/teachers

    Over the next weeks we will be introducing all the invited teachers of Barcelona 2016 – check the website every Monday and Thursday for latest postings.

  • Final Schedule

    The final schedule and the pieces to be taught at the Barcelona 2016 Summer School have been published.

    You can find it all here: barcelona2016.shakuhachisociety.eu/schedule-concerts

    See you in Barcelona!

  • 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!

  • 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.