Kiku Day - shakuhachi
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - guitar
John McCowen - clarinets, recorders
Gyða Valtysdottir - cello

Doors 19:30 | Tickets 2.500

Kiku Day (PhD London, MFA Mills) is an ethnomusicologist and shakuhachi player. She studied the traditional repertoire with master Okuda Atsuya in Tokyo for eleven years before returning to Europe and is dedicated to the dissemination of the traditional repertoire as well as creating a contemporary repertoire for the jinashi shakuhachi working with composers such as Roxanna Panufnik, Takahashi Yūji, Frank Denyer, Arnannguaq Gerstrøm and
Jesper Holmen. She has performed as a soloist at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall and Royal Festival Hall.
She is also known for her innovative playing techniques in cross-cultural settings with other performers. Day has taught shakuhachi both individual and in group lessons for more than
20 years and has organised many shakuhachi festivals. She is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.