Georgia State University School of Music & Asian Studies Center Present: guest shakuhachi artist Daniel Ribble in concert

The Georgia State University School of Music and Asian Studies Center present guest shakuhachi artist Daniel ‘Ryudo’ Ribble in a free concert,  entitled “The Shakuhachi: Now and Zen,” Monday, September 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Florence Kopleff Recital Hall.

A Georgia State alumnus with an MA in history, Mr. Ribble has been playing the shakuhachi, or traditional Japanese bamboo flute, for 20 years in the city of Kochi, Japan.

Daniel Ribble began studying the Japanese music genres of gaikyoku (chamber music played in ensemble with koto and shamisen) and honkyoku (wandering Zen monks’ pieces from the Edo Period) under Ikezoe Kyodo, a master of the Kinko school of shakuhachi, in 1988, obtaining his shakuhachi shihan (master’s license) in the Kinko Ryu Chikudosha branch of shakuhachi playing in 2001.  He has played for the last 15 years in the Kochi Sankyoku Kai, the largest traditional music event in Kochi prefecture, as well as performing with shakuhachi and koto musicians at venues such as the National Theatre of Japan in Tokyo and the Shanghai Concert Hall in China.  He has performed solo and with local musicians in Hong Kong, Romania, France, Holland and the U.K., and has attended renowned shakuhachi maestro Yokoyama Katsuya’s annual workshops in Bisei, Okayama prefecture for the last decade.  Daniel currently teaches his own small group of shakuhachi students in Kochi, Japan.

His performance at Georgia State will include Japanese minyo (folk
music) and traditional Zen monks’ pieces.  He will also discuss the history and current status of the bamboo flute, which first made its way to Japan from China in the 8th century.

The concert will be held at the Florence Kopleff Recital Hall, located at the corner of Gilmer Street and Peachtree Center Avenue, inside the Arts & Humanities Building, on Georgia State’s campus in downtown Atlanta. 

Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee at the Recital Hall “I” Lot (parking entrance on Peachtree Center Avenue).

For additional information, contact the Georgia State School of Music at 404-413-5901 or visit www.music.gsu.edu.