| Michael Coxall studied shakuhachi in Japan for many years under the legendary Chikumeisha Kinko-ryu master and Living Cultural Treasure, the late Yamaguchi Goro, and still continues his studies with Mizuno Kohmei on regular visits to Japan.
Michael has been teaching full time at SOAS, University of London, since 1986 and is particularly interested in the jiuta-sokyoku repetoire of Kinko- ryu shakuhachi. As well as teaching and recroding, he has performed widely in the UK and is the founder member of the London Hogaku Ensemble; has featured in numerous solo and ensemble performances with the Anglo-Japanese Collective and as an accompanist in recitals with visiting traditional Japanese performers in the UK including Kikuchi Teiko, Matsumura Hohmei and Nagai Seiho.
He is currently also a member of the sankyoku ensamble Hibiki and of the SOAS Japanese Music Society and was co-organiser of the First Pan- European Shakuhachi Summer School with Koto and Shamisen at SOAS in July 2006.
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