January 8-11, 2025 – Phoenix, AZ
Two New Composition Premieres at the Low Clarinetfest
Schedule TBA – EVENT LINK
Click HERE and go to Calendar for details and past performances.
March 30 – April 1, 2025 – Ithaca College, NY
Short-term fellowship with the clarinet department
April 11-20, 2025 – Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
World Shakuhachi Festival
Concert Appearances and Masterclasses/Workshops – EVENT LINK
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
Final Pittsburgh Concert was August 20, 2023
at Iron City Rinzai / Stillpoint Zen Center
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…