Learn to play the Japanese shinobué flute with Japanese flute master Yasukazu Kano!
Explore the shinobué - Japanese bamboo flute - and join us for a unique beginner Japanese flute playing workshop.
Instruments are available to borrow.
Yasukazu Kano is one of Japan's foremost professional flutists. He draws his musical inspiration from the beautiful nature of Japan's Sado Island. He can make the Japanese bamboo flute shinobué sing like the birds and sound like the sea breeze.
During the course we learn to play shinobué and Kano shares his unique method and breathing technique.
Flute playing and Yokai
Noh Theater is a strong tradition on Sado, the island where Kano works and lives.
There are strong elements of demons (Yokai) within Noh and Kano often plays a special flute called the Noh kan.
Read about the continuation course given on the same day.
(shinobue player, shinobue instructor, music producer)
Kano was born in Tokyo in 1963. He started playing drums at the age of thirteen. Nowadays, he has a long career as a musician behind him which has taken him around the world.
He started in 1987 in the famous taiko performing arts group Kodo but in 1997 began to focus on his career as a solo artist. While living on Sado Island, he began learning to play the ancient Japanese bamboo flute shinobué and created his own way of playing with his own breathing technique.
In addition to numerous CDs, Kano Yasukazu has published instructional DVDs and books. He leads shinobue workshops all over Japan and around the world.
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