Tours swiss with percussionist Barni Palm and later Japan with Pianist Holger Mantay. Is lecturing at Kyoto University, Tokushima University, Doshisha University, Nagoya City Senior Highschool, GakushuIn Daigaku university Tokyo and starts workshop for kids in No theatre.
2009
Produces and directs his play “Ube no Ubeteki” – Tales of Hikari Genji at the prefectoral cultur hall in Kyoto.
2008
Starts lecturing with the tile “Time and space in Japanese music and No Theatre” at universities and schools in Japan and abroad.
2007
Plays as a representant of Japanese classical music at the concert for old and new cmusic from Japan and Korea at the villa Stuck in Munich. This was braodcasted by national german TV Bayrischer Rundfunk.
2006
Mise en scene of his play “Phoenix” with his own compositions for No chant and dance and shakuhachi in the Hachiman Shrine in Matsyama
2005
Is an actor in the Movie “Baruto no Gakuen” with Bruno Ganz
2004
Tour in Japan with saxophon player Gert Anklam, Beate Gatscha (Dance) and Holger Mantay (Piano).
2003
organizes a tour for Shakuhachi playing Zen monks to Germany and Auschwitz. Plays at the international music festival in Kiew ias part of the japanese Group “Kirara”.
2002
Organizes study travels for European University teachers. Tea ceremonies, No theatre workshops, broadcasted by CATV Osaka
2001
Release ot the CD “Begegnung” for Live Conzert in German Ambassy in Tokyo (with Kakei Masaru, classical guitar)
2000
Works as a reporter for the NHK TV Osaka.
1999
Participates at the komuso gathering at the Shitennoji Tempel in Osaka with “San-An” after Watazumi Do Roshi. Tours Germany with Guitar player Nakamura Yoshimitsu and Japanese drum (Taiko)-player Iwakichi Yamashita. Is on NHK Radio Kyoto.
1998
Session with Gert Anklam, a saxophon player from East Berlin. On air in Radio Berlin (Rias) and NDR Hamburg.
1997
Organizes from now on every year the international Musicfestival “Kawaramono” in the mountains north of Kyoto, which was broadcasted by the NHK TV.
1995
Concert Tour “Global Rider Meeting” with Okura Shonosuke through Japan und China.
1994
Plays for the brother of the Tenno mikasa no miya his original “Tauta”.
1993
Composes “Tauta” for three Celli, Guitar, Shakuhachi und No-chants on CD “Tauta”.
1987
Solo-conzerts at Schlachthof Freiburg. Monsun Theater Hamburg, and Packhaus Theater Bremen.
1986
Plays in Aztecs Dream at the Sound Symposium in St.John’s, Newfundland
1985
Debut at the Kongo N0-Theater with: “Musume Dojoji” (original dance). Teaches actors and singers at the “Traditional Theatre Training” inKyoto organized by Utaka Michishige of the Kongo N0-School and J. Salz (sponsored by the Japan Foundation.)
1980
Starts studying No-play at the Kongo No-School in Kyoto and Shakuhachi with Izu Hiroshi, master of Tozan school.
1978
Tours Germany with the Circus tent-theater Hundertfleck.
1976
Studies Pantomime with Lindsay Kemp at Covent Garden and Jazzvoice/Jazzdance at the Ovalhous Theater London.
1975
Debut as an actor in: “Faust”, a Circus Maximus Production in Marburg.
1953
born in East Germany. Studies Cello with Frau Lorant, a Cello player at the Philharmonika Hungarica in Marl.