Ralph Samuelson
Shakuhachi
samuelson.ralph@gmail.com
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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.
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Teachers Students
William O'Hare Adam Robinson Ned Rothenberg
Perry Yung |
Albums
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Music of the Shakuhachi Kinko and Meian honkyoku. |
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Offerings Kinko and Meian honkyoku. |
Tracks Recorded
Publications
| Title | Kanji | Publisher | Year | Pages | Language |
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| 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 |