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Greetings Shakuhachi List Members,
I am writing to announce the details of the "Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies IX," June 21-25, 2007, less than four months away!

Visit http://www.shakucamp.com/  for more info right now, including registration materials.

This camp offers the most concentrated learning experience most shakuhachi students in the world might encounter this year. It also offers a very special concert, at 7pm, Saturday, June 23, at the Sunrise Ranch Dome, Loveland, Colorado

This year's camp continues to incorporate a specially formulated Beginner's Curriculum and a highly concentrated Intermediate/Advanced Course, and offers some seriously delightful shaku-community. Our goal is no less than to make your Shakucamp experience the most valuable 5 days you will spend with the shakuhachi this year.
    1. "Special Beginner Curriculum." For anyone who has come into the possession of their first shakuhachi any time in the past two years, this camp is for you! The six core faculty of Shakucamp since its inception, Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, Michael Chikuzen Gould, Kaoru Kakizakai, Yoshio Kurahashi, Riley Lee and David Wheeler, representing almost two centuries' teaching experience, continue to modify and improve what may be the most effective Shakuhachi Beginner Curriculum to be found.
For the duration of camp, all beginners will be following this curriculum with one of its authors. Faculty will change daily so students can enjoy the individual strengths of each faculty member.
    2. "Advanced Curriculum" Teachers will spend a lot of time concentrating on a modest number of pieces, thoroughly covering technique and musicality, thus guaranteeing you will come away from camp with new repertoire and technique under your belt.
    3. "Universal Curriculum" For one period each day, ALL camp participants, from Beginner to Advanced, join together for lectures and instruction on some core facet of the Shakuhachi: repertoire, technique, theory, philosophy, history, lore and more.
    4. "Shakucamp Jump-start Program"  You can actually start your camp experience months before arriving at Sunrise Ranch in late June. Camp registrants will be given access to a private page on the Shakucamp website where sheet music files of the teaching materials and pieces offered at camp can be browsed, perused, and downloaded at will. Audio files will also be made available for musical reference.
Our strong faculty will be offering a wide ranging and very deep curriculum. In addition to the standard classical Honkyoku (Zen solos) and Sankyoku (shamisen/koto/shakuhachi), and modern solos and ensembles, faculty will teach improvisation and much more.
It is going to be a wonderful 4 nights and 5 days. We hope to see you there!
Cheers,
David Wheeler
(2007 Summer Shakuhachi Camp of the Rockies IX, Faculty Representative)


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David Wheeler
Musician (Shakuhachi)/Musicologist
3660 Buckeye Ct., Boulder, CO, USA 80304
Tel./Fax 303-449-2935
shakudavid@gmail.com

Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies
http://www.shakucamp.com