May 28, 2023
Spirit PGH
An action-packed night with Seal Party and Matthew Charles Heulitt — it’s like a rock-jazz-nightclub show, and I am the opening opener — a role I have rarely done as a solo shakupenuer. What will happen? Come find out.
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Facebook event HERE
Jimi Hendrix on the shakuhachi – Charley Patton Tribute Concert
Shakuhachi Music Video “Green Swampy Water”
11/14/2021 live solo concert – livestream only
Wood God Blues at Old First Church.
Full concert description here.
Wood God Blues at Old First Church.
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
4/7/2021 live solo concert – replay
20 Years of Shakuhachi
20 Years of Shakuhachi
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, 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…