Schedule 4

Kawamura Kizan studied the shakuhachi under his father, Kawamura Taizan. Master Instructor and Lecturer of the Tozan-ryū.

Kawamura is a recipient of the Grand Prize at the Kumamoto National Traditional Music Competition and the Gold Prize at the Tozan-ryū National Honkyoku Competition.

Kawamura is a member of various ensembles including ‘The Shakuhachi 5’.

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Gunnar Jinmei Linder began studying shakuhachi in Japan in 1985 with Yamaguchi Gorō (designated Living National Treasure). He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree as a soloist from Tokyo University of the Arts 1997, and was awarded shihan and the name Jinmei from Yamaguchi in 1998.

Linder performed and taught professionally in Japan for twenty years before returning to his native Sweden. He now performs and teaches regularly throughout Europe. Linder holds a PhD in Japanology and is working as Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at Stockholm University where he is actively conducting research, for example: Notes on Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku (2011); Deconstructing Traditionin Japanese Music (PhD diss., 2012); Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations (with Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, 2024). He also teaches at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm when required. Linder has also made numerous recordings.

In 2016 he was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation, and in 2025 he received The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his academic and artistic activities and promotion of Japanese culture.

Cornelius Boots is an archcreative, composer and lifelong woodwinder. Boots has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. He has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his compositions and is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music, a dai shihan in Zen shakuhachi and has received awards, grants and commissions.

Boots explores primeval nature as a core influence, is fluent in jazz, blues, rock, funk, orchestral and honkyoku styles and has created substantial new composition catalogs for bass clarinet and shakuhachi.

The founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, he specializes in natural-bore, bass flutes and solo, progressive blues performance.