Andrew MacGregor

Australian musician Andrew MacGregor is a Japanese-trained shakuhachi master who first heard the instrument on a recording by Leon Russell. Captivated by its ethereal sound and the depth of feeling it conveyed, he became passionately interested in the music handed down through the Zen Buddhist tradition. He began his studies with Riley Lee in 1985 and Yokoyama Katsuya in 1989. In 1993 MacGregor traveled to Osaka where he spent an intensive period as a live-in apprentice (uchi deshi) with teacher and master Tadashi Tajima. He has studied with Miyata Kohachiro since 2001. In 19...