Bruce Huebner

Went to Japan in 1989 as a Monbusho Ministry of Education scholar, where he entered the Japanese Music Department of the Tokyo University of the Fine Arts and Music. There he studied under the Living National Treasure, Yamaguchi Goro for nearly five years becoming the first non-Japanese to graduate from the prestigious "Geidai". After moving to the Tohhoku Region of Northern Japan in 1994, he produced solo shakuhachi recitals with guests Kawase Junsuke in 1995 and Murooka Shoko (Yamada School Koto) in 1996. He earned his Shihan mastership in 1995 from Chikyusha. He is the founder of the Contemporary Sankyoku Ensemble and author of a three-volume teaching video in English for shakuhachi.

With a background in jazz, Bruce Huebner traveled to Japan in 1983 to study the shakuhachi under Kinko School master Junsuke Kawase. He returned to UC Santa Barbara in 1987 to take a Masters in East-Asian Studies (thesis title: Shakuhachi Honkyoku as Mahayana Buddhist Practice). He produced solo shakuhachi recitals in 1995 and 1996 and has performed with the Sawai Koto School and noted Butoh dancer Mori Shigeya. He is Assistant Professor of Music at Fukushima Women's Junior College, Fukushima, Japan.

先生

山口五郎

アルバム

Song of Daybreak

Chamber music, honkyoku and contemporary music for shakuhachi, koto, sangen and voice.

録音した曲

曲	漢字	長さ	アルバム	楽器
Akebono no Uta	曙の歌	13'05	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Chidori no Kyoku	千鳥の曲	06'15	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Haru no Umi	春の海	07'31	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Kajimakura	楫枕	16'48	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Sagari Ha no Kyoku	下り葉の曲	05'34	Song of Daybreak	尺八
San'ya Sugagaki	三谷菅垣	06'53	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Shika no Tōne (Kinko Ryū)	鹿の遠音	09'24	Song of Daybreak	尺八
Tsuru no Koe	鶴の声	06'02	Song of Daybreak	尺八

文献

タイトル	漢字	出版社	年	ページ	言語
The Shakuhachi Honkyoku as a Mahayana Buddhist Esoteric Practice		Master of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara	1989