Tsuna Iwami

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Tsuna Iwami ( Baikyoku V , born March 21, 1923 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese composer and shakuhachi player living in South America .

The son of the music professor and koto player Tomii Iwami learned to play shakuhachi in the traditional style of the Kinko school from the age of seven . He attained the rank of master of this instrument, and in 1941 he was given the stage name Iwami Baikyoku V by Master Araki Kodo IV .

He also studied composition with Kishio Hirao and graduated as a chemical engineer from the University of Kyoto. In 1956 the family emigrated to Brazil. Here Iwami appeared as a shakuhachi player with musicians such as Tomoi Inoki , Yuko Ogura , Gakkyo Yumoto and Utahito Kitahara and organized concerts and the like. a. in the Municipal Theater of São Paulo.

He regularly visited Japan on the occasion of the presentation of the master's title of the Kinko school for shakuhachi players. In 1970 he took up a radio program there on the history of shakuhachi music. In Brazil he had several students. In addition to the three Japanese Baiō Natori , Júlio Kobayashi and Máximo Hamada , these were u. a. Carlos Raigorodsky , Antônio Mauro Rodrigues Roque , Dale Olsen , Danilo Tomic and José Vicente Ribeiro . In 1989 he became President of the Associação Brasileira de Música Clássica Japonesa , the Association of Shakuhachi and Koto Schools in São Paulo.

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SURNAME Iwami, tsuna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iwami Baikyoku V
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese composer and shakuhachi player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo