World Shakuhachi Festival
April 17-20, 2025
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
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Concert Appearances and Masterclasses/Workshops
April 15 – guest lecture for World Music Traditions Class, TAMU
April 17 – 3:00 pm The Wood Prophets: bass shakuhachi quartet performance
April 19 – solo “Black Earth” performance at the GALA Concert in Round Top
April 20 – 3:00 pm Workshop: Mukyoku, new repertoire for bass shakuhachi (Taimu)
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2024 Year in Review:
Solo Shakuhachi Performances in:
Scotland – Ireland – Amsterdam – Texas – Tennessee – Norway – Philadelphia – Arizona
Compositions Commissioned and Completed for:
low clarinet choir & percussion* – reed quintet* – solo bass clarinet* – solo contrabass clarinet – low clarinet quintet
11 separate pieces or movements – 70 minutes of music
*premiered in 2024
Transcription Arrangements Commissioned and Completed:
3 Sinéad O’Connor tunes for bass clarinet super-sextet – 14 minutes of music
Live at St. Ann’s in Dublin, Ireland 2024
R.L. Burnside played on Bass Shakuhachi
Mississippi Hill Country Blues meets Zen Bamboo Flute
“Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down”
Wood Prophecy now available on Apple Music, Spotify, and all those types of places!
Jimi Hendrix on the shakuhachi – Charley Patton Tribute Concert
Shakuhachi Music Video “Green Swampy Water”
Great press on the music video in Paste Magazine written by Oktay Ege Kozak
Bass Shakuhachi Ensemble Debut: the only composing Taimu Group
Pre-Videogame Live Performance,
Sony PlayStation E3 2018
Photo by Stephanie Mohan, 2018
About Cornelius Boots
Cornelius Boots has forged his own no-holds-barred style as a professional woodwind performer/composer/teacher since 1989. He is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and licensed grandmaster (dai shihan) in the dynamic Zen shakuhachi lineage of Watazumido. A reliable source of big bamboo blues and dark nature music, he is the recipient of international awards and is an active recording artist.
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Edmund Welles
About Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
Edmund Welles has had the distinction of being the world’s only original, composing band of four bass clarinetists, performing “heavy chamber music.” Cornelius Boots is the founder and principal composer of this former group. While the performing days of the group are over, material remains to be released. Sign up on Cornelius’ newsletter list to be alerted to future releases.
The bass clarinet has a 5 octave range and a huge span of tonal, melodic, and rhythmic capabilities…