| 1949 | *Born Kyoto. and studied shakuhachi since childhood under Yodo Kurahashi (father), founder of the Mujuan Shakuhachi School; later under Homei Matsumura of Nara.
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| 1975 | *Graduated Osaka City Uniuversity |
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| 1976 | *First recital Osaka; received the Osaka Cultural Festival Award. |
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| 1980 | *Became the second director of the Mujuan Shakuhachi School. |
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| 1981 | *Recital in New York, USA. |
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| 1982 | *Premiere of Hiten (A Flying Maiden) for Shakuhachi and Brass composed by Tetsunosuke Kushida, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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| 1983 | *Performed in Wuxi, China. |
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| 1984 | *Premiere of Figuration for Shakuhachi and Brass composed by Tetsunosuke Kushida, Kyoto. |
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| 1986 | *Lectures in Tel-Aviv Univ., Hebrew Univ. and Bar-Ilan Univ., and recitals in Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel. |
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| 1987 | *Performed in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. *Performed in the special cocert of Kyoto City Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| 1989 | *Inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto Sankyoku Association(-2000). *Performed in Queens College, Columbia Univ., Wesleyan Univ., Harvard Univ., Princeton Univ., Pennsylvania Univ. and Maryland Univ., USA |
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| 1990 | *Inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto Hogaku Group.(-2011) |
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| 1991 | *Paticipated in The Art Festival KYO and performed Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. *Inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto City Art and Culture Association(-1996). |
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| 1992 | *Performed in Beijing and Shanghai, China. |
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| 1994 | *Performed in Queens College and Harvard Univ., USA. *Paticipated in The Art Festival KYO and performed at Kurodani Temple *Instructed for the movie Lone Wolf and Cub, For the Small Hands, directed by Akira Inoue |
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| 1995 | *Performed in Queens College and Wesleyan Univ., USA. *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in New York and Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
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| 1996 | *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in Boston, Mass. USA. *Recital in Copenhagen, Denmark. *Premiere of Sugihara for Shakuhachi and Orchestra composed by Meir Mindel, Tel-Aviv, Israel. *1st Mujuan Recital in New York and Boulder, Colorado, USA |
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| 1997 | *Premiere of Bamboo Princess composed by Randall Snyder, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. |
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| 1998 | *Premiere of Fantasy for Kaguya-Hime composed by Hifumi Shimoyama, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA. *2nd Mujuan Recital in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Boulder, Colorado, USA *Invited to The World Shakuhachi Festival in Boulder 1998. |
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| 1999 | *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in San Francisco, California. USA. *Inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto Myoan-ji Kyochiku Zenji Commemorate Association. *Released CD Kyoto Spirit. *Received the Kyoto City Art/Culture Association Award. *Began the series funny essays for the monthly Japanese magazine Hogaku Journal(-2000). *New Age Magazine(USA) named Kyoto Spirit the "Best Serene Music CD of the year 1999." |
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| 2000 | *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in Dallas, Texas, USA. *Formed a trio WYT with a pipa player Wu Man and cellist Andor Toth. First WYT recital: Chicago, USA. *Performed in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, Canada, with a pipa player Liu Fang and cellist Yegor Dyashkov. *Released CD Autumn Dusk with a pipa player Wu Man. |
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| 2001 | *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in Montreal, Canada. *Began the series funny essays again for the monthly Japanese magazine Hogaku Journal(-2002). *Performed at the opening ceremony of World Table Tennis Championships and East Asian Games in Osaka. *Performed with a koto player Yoko Hiraoka in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. *Recital at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
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| 2002 | *Recital at Nebraska University, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. *Performed with a pipa player Gao Hong, a flutist James Newton and a sitar player Shubhendra Rao in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. |
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| 2003 | *Recital in Hamilton, Bermuda. *Performed at the opening ceremony of 3rd World Water Forum in Osaka. |
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| 2004 | *Recital at Smith College, Northampton, and lectured at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. *Participated in The World Shakuhachi Festival in New York 2004 as an executive. *Recital at The University of Maryland, USA. |
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| 2005 | *Joint Recital with a koto player Ayako Kurahashi at The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. *Joint Recital with a koto player Ayako Kurahashi in Houston and in Dallas, Texas, USA. |
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| 2006 | *Joint Recital with a koto player Yoko Itatani Hirano in Ottawa, Canada. *Joint Recital with a zheng/pipa player Liu Fang in Gent, Belgium. |
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| 2007 | *Joint Recital with a zheng/pipa player Liu Fang in The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rottherdam and Almere, The Netherlands. *Joint Recital with a koto/sangen player Ayako Kurahashi and a koto player Miyuki Yoshikami in Bethesda and at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. *Joint Recital with a koto/sangen player Ayako Kurahashi and a koto player Miyuki Yoshikami at The Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA, organized by The Smithonian Institution. *Joint Recital with a sangen player Ayako Kurahashi and a koto player Yoko Itatani Hirano at The University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA. |
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| 2008 | *Recital at Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris, France. *Released CD by INEDIT, Paris, France. *Participated in The World Shakuhachi Festival in Sydney 2008 as an executive, Australia. *Recital in Haifa, Israel. *Performed Sugihara for Shakuhachi and Orchestra, Ashkelon, Israel. *Joint Recital with a sangen player Shigehiro Shimada and a koto player Ayako Kurahashi in Gent, Belgium, and in Kloosterzande, The Netherlands. *Performed with a pipa player Liu Fang, South African musician Pops Mohamed and Iranian percussionist Ziya Tabassian in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
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| 2009 | *Joint Recital with Shomyo Shichiseikai of Kyoto in Antwerp Belgium, Amsterdam and Utrecht The Netherlands. *Invited to The European Shakuhachi Summer School as an instructor, Leiden, The Netherlands. *Took a name Yodo Kurahashi the Second. *Mujuan Celebration Shakuhachi Recital in Kyoto. |
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| 2010 | *Recital in New York, USA. *Recital at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, USA. *Recital in Hamilton, Bermuda. *Composed and performed music for the movie "Lost Mind in Spring", directed by Yoichi Takabayashi, released in 2011. *Joint Recital with a koto player Ayako Kurahashi in Hautes-Laurentides, Quebec, Canada. *Re-inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto Sankyoku Association(-2014). |
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| 2011 | *Produced a Gagaku performance of Osaka Gakuso in Gent, Belgium. *Performed with a Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam in Gent, Belgium. *Recital in Paris, France. |
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| 2012 | *Organized the 2012 World Shakpuhachi Festival in Kyoto. *Joint Recital with a koto/sangen player Ayako Kurahashi and a koto player Miyuki Yoshikami at The University of Maryland, Maryland, and at JICC, Embassy of Japan, Washington DC, USA. |
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| 2013 | *Joint Recital with a sangen player Shigehiro Shimada and a koto player Ayako Kurahashi in Gent, Belgium, and in Utrecht and in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. *Recital in The Post Mountain Music-Arts Festival, Beijing, China. *40th Anniversary Mujuan Shakuhachi Recital in Kyoto. |
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| 2014 | *Recital at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, USA. *Recital in Sent, Engadin Valley, Switzerland. *Joint Recital with a sangen player Ayako Kurahashi in Haarlem, The Netherlands. *Recital in New York, USA. *40th Anniversary Mujuan Shakuhachi Recital 'Bamboo Brilliance' at Freer Gallery, Washington DC, USA. |
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| 2015 | *The Rimpa 400 Year Celebration Concert 'Making Musical Waves' at Freer Gallery, Washington DC, USA. |
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| 2016 | *Invited to The 10th Anniversary Edition of Prague Shakuhachi Festival as an instructor, Prague, Czech. *Recital in The Ai World Music Festival, Beijing, China. *Began annual shakuhachi intensive class in Beijing, China. *Recitals in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou and Shantou, China. |
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| 2017 | *Joint Recitals with a koto player Miyuki Yoshikami at Washington College, Maryland, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, and The University of Mary Washington, Virginia, USA. *Recital at the Bunraku Theater Osaka. |
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| 2018 | *Invited to The World Shakuhachi Festival London 2018. *Joint Recital with a koto player Ayako Kurahashi in Beijing, China. |
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| 2019 | *Joint Recital with a sangen player Ayako Kurahashi in Kunming and Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. *Held a shakuhachi intensive class in Kunming, Yunnan, China. |
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| 2021 | *Lectured and performed in the Smithonian (USA) Web Presentation "Look & Listen: Nature in Japanese Art and Music". *Recital at the Bunraku Theater Osaka. |
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| 2022 | *Recital at the Bunraku theater Osaka. *Received 2022 Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Excellence Award for Music. *Second-Re-inaugurated as the director of the Kyoto Sankyoku Association. |
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| 2023 | *50th Anniversary Mujuan Shakuhachi Recital in Kyoto. *Inaugurated as the Chairman of the Kyoto Myoan-ji Kyochiku Zenji Commemorate Association. |
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