Elliot Kanshin Kallen
エリオㇱト 勘心 カーレン
Born 1951
Composer - Shakuhachi
elliot@japanflute.com
http://japanflute.com/
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Elliot Kanshin Kallen spent most of his early life as a keyboard player for many bands and on many stages. In the late 1990s, circumstances led him to the Japanese bamboo flute and he became a student of David Kansuke Wheeler, a Kinko-ryū shakuhachi master in Boulder, CO. He also studied with Kansuke’s teacher, Kawase Junsuke III, the third generation head of Chikuyu-sha, the largest Kinko-ryū shakuhachi organization in Japan. Elliot received his Shihan (masters license) and the performance name Kanshin (勘心)in 2018. He plays (and composes and arranges music for) shakuhachi in a wide variety of contexts, from the meditative sounds of the Zen solo repertoire and traditional Japanese ensemble music with koto and shamisen, to the exploratory sounds of the avant-garde. He was part of the organizing committee for the World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 that took place in Texas and also is one of the organizers of the Sonoma Matsuri, a yearly Northern California festival of Japanese arts, crafts, and performing artists. He performs, teaches, and facilitates workshops on Japanese classical music and the shakuhachi from his home base in Santa Rosa. Elliot is the current President of the International Shakuhachi Society.
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Teachers Students
Douglas Egge Lance Giroux Barry Gross Brian Howlett Jim Nordberg Celestine Star 1953 - 2022
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