Top pianist, shakuhachi player, jazzman.

Probably the most respected master of traditional spiritual music of the shakuhachi in Japan.

Christopher is a regular guest in Prague. He is one of the top shakuhachi performers. Thanks to his affection for Prague, we are now able to hold this festival.

Exceptional composer of contemporary music, shakuhachi player and an ethnomusicologist.

Jim is an outstanding composer and shakuhachi player.

Master shakuhachi player of the Chikuho style.

Master shakuhachi player and maker investigating old styles of the shakuhachi spiritual music.

Improviser, pianist, player on analogue synthetisers and theremin.

Audiovisual performer, crossing over from pure sound art to more conceptual works.

“My main interest lies in the phenomena of Perception
as the fundamental determinant of relations with Re_ality.
[the reAlity is of such bizarrrrrre nature,
that is hard to believe it actually exists …"

Virtuoso koto player.

Shakuhachi player. Grandmaster of the Chikuho ryu.

American trumpet player dedicated to improvised music.

Contra bass player for USA whose main focus is improvised music.

Excellent didjeridoo player who succesfully uses the instrument in a new context of contemporary electronic and avant-garde music. He calls his style organic electronica.

Jean-Francois is one of the best French shakuhachi players of the Tozan School. He has also mastered the concert flute and is currently teaching at Asnières and Le Kremlin-Bicêtre conservatory.

Gunnar comes from Sweden and is a shakuhachi master of the Kinko Ryu. His passion for the instrument has taken him on important musical events all over the world. He is also author of many important texts about the shakuhachi.

Young Czech shakuhachi player.