Masayuki koga biography

Masayuki Koga studied Kinko shakuhachi with his father, Kiichi Koga, and Tozan school with Kazan Sakai in Tokyo. In 1967, he became the youngest member of the award-winning Ensemble Nipponia, and continued to work with them for the following four years.

In 1973, he moved to the United States. He founded the Japanese Music Institute of America in 1981. He has taught in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the Naropa Institute and at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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In 1998, he collaborated with Taiko artist Kenny Endo in the Deai project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. He has been selected for the 1998-2000 Touring Artists Directory by the California Arts Council.教え子

Autumn Mist

A collection of duets, bringing the natural beauty and vibrant richness of the Japanese bamboo flute to compositions originally written for Western instruments.

Koga's clear-voiced shakuhachi is complemented here by the sensitive guitar of Douglas Hensley.

Beyond Time And Space

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