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Artist
Jim Franklin
12+ albums
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Jim Franklin initially studied composition and musicology in Australia, Germany and Holland. In 1986 he encountered the shakuhachi, studying with Dr Riley Lee, Furuya Teruo and Yokoyama Katsuya. He received the title of Shihan (Master) in 1996 from Yokoyama-sensei. In 1997 he was awarded the degree of PhD from Sydney University for a crossover thesis combining musicology and composition, focussing on aspects of contemporary approaches to shakuhachi, and including the combination of shakuhachi and live-electronics. He emigrated to Germany in 2004. From 2006 to 2009 he was founding Chairperson of the European Shakuhachi Society. In 2018 he was a key organiser of the World Shakuhachi Festival in London. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
