Music From Japan and its Artistic Director, Naoyuki Miura, are thrilled to announce Festival 2011: a weekend of events in New York City's Baruch Performing Arts Center (Feb 12 & 13, 2011), and a ...

Flute-maker, Muramatsu Inc., dominates a huge share of the domestic and overseas markets with their gold flutes. ... Japan’s position as a center for monozukuri has been weakening, ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi.“I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San ...

The Japanese flutist Yoko Owada, who appeared in Israel several years ago, has recently published a set of four CDs presenting a selection of 20th-century Japanese flute music.

BELLOWS FALLS -- On Friday at 7:30 p.m. Stone Church Arts presents the final concert in its 2007-08 season. Elizabeth Reian Bennett will perform solo shakuhachi, Japanese bamboo flute in the Chapel ...

"Katachi: The Shape of Sounds in Silence," a performance of Japanese taiko drums and flute, will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College. Kaoru ...

Michael Chikuzen Gould enchants kids and parents each year with his performance on the shakuhachi flute at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Malott Japanese Garden Children’s Festival. Gould will ...

KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...

The shakuhachi is a traditional Japanese bamboo flute with a simple construction: It usually has four holes on the front and one on the back. But it can express a wide range of sounds and is used ...