Ralph Samuelson

Ralph Samuelson is a performer and teacher of the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi. He was trained in the classical tradition of the Kinko School of shakuhachi by the late Living National Treasure Goro Yamaguchi as well as by Shudo Yamato and Kodo Araki V, both in Japan and in the graduate world music program at Wesleyan University. He performs traditional and contemporary music throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, and has recorded for CBS Masterworks, Lyrichord, Music of the World, Tzadik, XI Records, Pogus, and other labels. He was the shakuhachi soloist in the New York City Ballet production of Jerome Robbins’ "Watermill" with music by Teiji Ito, and his "Flutes of Hope” ensemble commemorating the victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan is presented annually in New York at venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In 2011 and 2013 he was artist in residence at the Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree, California. He is an international advisor for the Seoul Institute of the Arts in Korea and is senior advisor and former director of the Asian Cultural Council.

先生

教え子

Perry Yung

Jon Nichols 1969 -

1980 -

アルバム

	Music of the Shakuhachi Kinko and Meian honkyoku.
	Offerings Kinko and Meian honkyoku.

録音した曲

曲	漢字	長さ	アルバム	楽器
Choshi (Taizan Ha)	調子	04'27	Offerings	尺八
Ginryu Koku	吟龍虚空	12'09	Music of the Shakuhachi	尺八
Hi Fu Mi Hachigaeshi no Shirabe (Kinko Ryū)	一二三鉢返の調	10'42	Music of the Shakuhachi	尺八
Mukaiji Reibo	霧海箎鈴慕	14'46	Japanese Music for Two Shakuhachi	尺八
Mukaiji Reibo	霧海箎鈴慕	15'20	Japanese Traditional Music For Two Shakuhachi	尺八
Naki Tokoro Nite (Where There Is Neither)		12'26	Ryu Nashi / No School: New Music for Shakuhachi	尺八
Ōshū Sashi	奥州薩字	09'22	Offerings	尺八
Rokudan no Shirabe	六段の調	10'32	Japanese Music for Two Shakuhachi	尺八
Rokudan no Shirabe	六段の調	10'57	Japanese Traditional Music For Two Shakuhachi	尺八
San'ya (Taizan Ha)	三谷	08'53	Music of the Shakuhachi	尺八
San'ya Sugagaki	三谷菅垣	08'43	Music of the Shakuhachi	尺八
San'ya Sugagaki	三谷菅垣	10'08	Offerings	尺八
Shika no Tône (Don't know which version)	鹿の遠音	11'14	Japanese Traditional Music For Two Shakuhachi	尺八
Shika no Tōne (Kinko Ryū)	鹿の遠音	23'58	Japanese Music for Two Shakuhachi	尺八
Shin Kyorei	真虚霊	19'47	Offerings	尺八
Yoshiya Reibo	吉野鈴慕	15'30	Offerings	尺八

文献

タイトル	漢字	出版社	年	ページ	言語
Review of Der Wahre Geist Der Leere performed by Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller		Asian Music 16, no. 2	1985	198-200
Some Aspects of the Kinko-ryu Notation including a Study of the Pattern-Units of Koku Reibo		Master of Arts, Wesleyan University	1971	187	English