ShakuhachiConcertby Master Jim FranklinThursday 3 October 20137.00pmThe Old Darlington School*Entrance $20 / $10 concession

Benefit Concert for SZCDr Jim Franklin is a master performer of the shakuhachi, the

traditional Japanese flute. After learning the instrument in

Australia with Dr Riley Lee and in Japan with Furuya Teruo and

Yokoyama Katsuya, he received the title Shihan (“master”) in

1996 from Yokoyama-sensei, and was thus officially licensed to

teach and perform shakuhachi. Franklin has specialized in the

honkyoku of the school of Yokoyama Katsuya (Kokusai

Shakuhachi Kenshukan) and in modern music. Since 2004

Franklin has lived in Germany. From 2006 to 2009 he was

founding Chairperson of the European Shakuhachi Society.

The shakuhachi, the traditional Japanese bamboo flute, is a very

simple instrument: it consists of a piece of bamboo with five finger

holes and an angled blowing edge. In the music of the

shakuhachi, this simplicity permits a vibrancy coupled with deep

stillness. This is related to the meditative culture of Zen, within the

framework of which the traditional pieces for shakuhachi, the so-

called honkyoku, arose. As a shakuhachi player, Jim Franklin

specialises in the honkyoku primarily of the school of Yokoyama

Katsuya (Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshukan) and in modern music.

*Location: Old Darlington School, Maze Crescent, University of

Sydney Darlington Campus, off City Road (the small church-like

building in the centre of the lawns, opposite the engineering

building)

Cost: $20 / $10 Concession

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