Tadashi Tajima is an internationally renowned Japanese shakuhachi artist, founder and leader of the Jikisho-ryu branch of shakuhachi performance. He played about 400 concerts in Japan and he has participated in many international music festivals, including the Edinburgh Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival, and has performed in a total of 20 countries outside Japan. He acted as a soloist at The Leipzig Bach Festival on the world premiere of Voyage X by the great Japanese composer, Hosokava Toshio.

He gives lectures regularly, often with representatives of various genres. Tajima’s aim is to widen the general approach of view about the shakuhachi, by showing its versatility and huge expressive power.; for these efforts he was awarded several times.

The lecture will be about the bamboo flute’s sound and other characteristics, as well as about a variety of performance options with the instrument. The subsequent concert can give also an idea that this traditional instrument is not restricted to play only traditional shakuhachi pieces, but also to use it in many other genres and contemporary pieces.