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Artist
Vlastislav Matousek
12+ albums
traditional japaneseshakuhachijapanese classical music
about
Doc. Vlastislav Matoušek Ph.D. (1948) earned a degree in composition, from the Faculty of Music, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, and took a postgraduate course in music theory. On a Japan Foundation fellowship in 1996, studying shakuhachi playing with Kifu Mitsuhashi in Tokyo and traditional Japanese music with Professor Osamu Yamaguti at the Faculty of Letters, Osaka University. At the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, in 2001, he defended his dissertation on “Kinetics in Ethnic Music”, earning a doctorate in Music Theory – Theory of Composition. In 1991 he began to lecture on ethnomusicology, in the Department of Music Theory and History, in the Faculty of Music, at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. Since 1999 he has also been teaching in the Institute of Musicology, Charles University, Prague. As a theorist, he is concerned with non-European music, kinetics and organology. He also works as a music journalist with Czech Radio, Prague (for example, “Ethnic Music at the Waves of the Vltava Broadcasting”). He has composed some quite eccentric pieces, often using exotic instruments and electronics, and prefers to use non-traditional approaches and means of expression. As an interpreter – particularly when playing the shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute, as on the CDs “Kaligrafie / Calligraphy”, Angel 1999, “Taki ochi”, ARTA 2003) and other exotic and folk instruments from his own large collection – he gives solo performances of
