Uwe Walter (musician)

Uwe Walter (* 1953 in Germany ) is a German musician and actor with a focus on Japanese music, especially shakuhachi flute, and no-theater .

After a cello studies with Mrs. Lorant, Philharmonia Hungarica , Marl , 1975-1978 training and performances in theater and pantomime , 1980-1985 study of shakuhachi in Izu Hiroshi, master of Tozan school, and no-drama in Kyoto / Japan organized by Utaka Michishige of the Kongo No School and J. Salt .

Since 1986 solo and ensemble concerts and acting tours, a. a. 1994 before Tenno's brother with his own composition. 1995 and 1997 concert tours through Japan and China and organization of the Kawaramono Music Festival in Kyoto, which was broadcast on the Japanese public television ( NHK ). Collaboration and appearances on Japanese television.

2003 Organization of a trip to Auschwitz for eleven Japanese Zen monks who play shakuhachi .

2005 with Bruno Ganz as an actor in the film "Baruto no Gakuen" ( Ode to Joy ).

2007 representative of classical Japanese music in the Villa Stuck , Munich . In 2008 lectures at Japanese universities and colleges on music (especially the physics of Shakuhachi) and the no-game. 2009 Production and direction of his play “Ube no Ubeteki” - Tales by Hikari Genji in the Culture Hall of Kyoto Prefecture . Since 2010 numerous concert tours in Japan and abroad.

To overcome fear and to train mindfulness in the sense of Bushidō , the Zen philosophy of life of the samurai , Walter is the only player in the world who plays the shakuhachi on a rope. Uwe Walter is married to a Japanese woman and has children. He lives in the countryside near Kyoto, where he is firmly integrated into community life.

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• Current appearances
• biography
• Uwe Walter and the International Shakuhachi Society