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Contemporary and Traditional Music from Japan Lake Forest, Ill.-—Internationally-known shakuhachi player Christopher Yohmei Blasdel and his vocal accompanist Mika Kimula will perform traditional and contemporary Japanese music at Lake Forest College on Thursday, February 27 at 8 p.m. in Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel on the College’s Middle Campus. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information please call 847-735-6010. The program, Bamboo Voice, Human Flute, consists of works from the rich repertory of traditional shakuhachi and Japanese vocal music together with exciting new compositions that negotiate tradition within the complexity of contemporary Tokyo. Pieces range from 17th Century Zen-inspired shakuhachi honkyoko solos to works newly commissioned for shakuhachi and voice. An artist, lecturer, composer and author Christopher Yohmei Blasdel was born in Texas, and began shakuhachi and studies of Japanese music in 1972—while a student at Waseda University in Tokyo—with shakuhachi master Goro Yamaguchi. He received a teaching license and the professional name “Yohmei” from Yamaguchi in 1984. At the same time, he completed graduate work in ethnomusicology at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. A permanent resident of Japan, he has performed, taught and lectured throughout China, Thailand, Europe, North America, Mexico, India, Malayasia, and the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The Japan Times says, “Blasdel's work is filled with the long, floating lines so graceful to his instrument, with the slow mellowing of tone and the punctuation of the sharp initial attack which levels into a climbing arc; the musical equivalent of soaring.” For more information on Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, visit his Web site at www2.gol.com/users/yohmei Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The college has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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