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Meihua（ancient Chinese） Yangkuan Sanchieh (ancient Chinese) Inori (ancient Japanese) Seichou (ancient Japanese style)

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David Loeb
- Japanese Transverse Flute

David Loeb studied composition with Peter Pindar Stearns at the Mannes College The New School for Music in New York 1959-62, and later studied traditional Japanese music (including composition) with Shinichi Yuize at Columbia University.  He began teaching at Mannes from 1964 and  continues teaching there now.  He also taught at the Curtis Institute of Music 1973-2000.  Also from 1964 he began composing for Japanese instruments and for early Western instruments, and in 1975 began to combine these.  From 1968 he began composing for Chinese and other East Asian traditional instruments.  Having played flute since elementary school it was natural for him to take up Japanese transverse flutes when he began to work with traditional Japanese music.  He has collaborated with Kohei Nishikawa, player of Japanese and Western flutes, for nearly forty years.  Unfortunately there are almost no traditional solo pieces for shinobue, so in order to pursue an active role as a soloist it was necessary to compose a body of work for the instrument.  Fortunately it has a role in many categories of traditional music, so it became possible to compose pieces relating to old folk melodies, to aspects of nature, to visual arts, to Buddhist precepts, to old legends, and to extant melodies from other East Asian traditions.  About 130 of his compositions have appeared on CDs.

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