Katsuya Yokoyama

Katsuya Yokoyama is one of the foremost Japanese Shakuhachi masters. He was born in a family of traditional musicians. When he was still very young, he studied the Shakuhachi with his grandfather and his father. Later on, he studied with Watazumi-Do of the Fuke School, who was impregnating the spirituality of Zen Buddhism into his music. Yokoyama's music is filled with this deep spirituality, the roots of which comes from the great Japanese musical tradition. He is also one of the foremost masters of modern Shakuhachi playing, resulting from the unavoidable influence of Wester...