Masafumi Ezaki | tr

Kojiro Umezaki grew up in Tokyo, Japan where he began studying Western flute and the shakuhachi. His career encompasses both traditional and technology-based music and a range of electronic media. “My mother is from Denmark and my father is Japanese. My multinational background may be one of the reasons why I don’t limit myself to the traditional repertoire. In all my work, I try to put the shakuhachi in a more contemporary, musically diverse context. Hopefully this work can become part of the evolutionary process of the instrument.” Ko is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine...

Masafumi Ezaki (江崎将史) is a trumpet player and composer in the Japanese onkyo scene. Born in 1969, lives in Kobe. Ezaki began performing in 1996, with a focus on improvisation. Redefining the trumpet as a metal tube, he has developed many distinctive playing techniques, such as microscopically picking up minute sounds from sources including the trumpet and household garbage. In the past few years, through both improvisation and composition, he has been exploring areas such as spatial organization using only common single notes, most often B flat. .