Akikazu Nakamura is a shakuhachi teacher and jazz virtuoso. He graduated from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) school of traditional music. as well as from Berklee College of Music in Boston with summa cum laude (majored composition and improvisation). He studied at the New England Conservatory for graduate studies of composition major and toured over thirty countries commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affair of Japan. Nakamura-sensei teaches traditional shakuhachi in Tokyo, however, he has stretch the limits of this ancient instrument in ways that few others have such as innovating the use of circular breathing for shakuhachi.
[ http://www.j-muisc.com/aki/index.html ]Sendungen im ORF-Kunstradio:
- 17. 11. 2002 : Sound Travels - Global Internet Exchange
