April 2016, a radio interview on KWMR, West Marin Community Radio, the show is “Pieces of Peace” hosted by Susan Santiago. [the quality is lo-fi due to it being a compressed mp3, so, adjust your expectations accordingly~]
Japan “Bamboo Traveler” trip in October 2016, more photos and videos to come, meanwhile:
HOLY FLUTE album funding campaign…thank you and it’ll be ready in March!
Sunday September 18, 2016
Solo House Concert in Redwood City, CA
Email me directly for details, especially if you live near the South Bay and desire naked bamboo flute sounds on 9/18.
September 3, 2016
Turquoise Yantra Grotto, San Francisco
Susan Rawcliffe (LA), clay flutes w/ Kevin Corcoran, percussion
+ Cornelius Boots, shakuhachi
August 19, 2016 guest fluting with Faun Fables in Berkeley
August 14, 2016
STUDIO GRAND, Oakland, CA
BAY AREA BRIDGES PRESENTS CORNELIUS BOOTS AND THE SHAKUHACHI FLUTE
June 2-6, 2016
Featured Artist at the
International Shakuhachi Festival Prague
“bamboo, castles and alchemy”
– 6 concert appearances
– a workshop, masterclass or two
– private lessons available
– and … one 2.8 fat Taimu for sale!
June 29, 2015
Sweetwater Music Hall Open Mic Night – DIO Tribute including short speech and twist ending…
May 2015
February 2015
Show Preview before our Valentine’s Day “Heart & Blood” Concert
November 2014
Photos from our great micro-residency at Southern Oregon University with Dr. Bender and Cece Dietlein.
October 2014
Philip Horan’s perceptive review of Mountain Hermit’s Secret Wisdom on the European Shakuhachi Society’s online journal: [scroll down to “Outside of tradition…” section]
September 2014
My favorite rendition yet of Sycamore Trees, from the September recital in Mississippi:
August 9, 2014, 4:00 PM
Mountain Hermit’s Secret Wisdom-CD Release Concert An intimate house concert. “A rock shakuhachi, Buddhist blues, and Zen nature music experience.” $20.00 suggested donation. RSVP required: fortehouse1498@gmail.com (to reserve your seat and for address) Facebook event page: here. Please share. For more information: Mountain Hermits House Concert-flyer (PDF)
April 2014
Success for Mountain Hermit’s Secret Wisdom album funding campaign! Thanks so much for those of you who contributed and supported in any way—the discs are trying really hard to become complete. More soon, and hopefully an album release show. Find the digital album here and here. The 5-movement flute and clarinet/bass clarinet duet commissioned by Crescent Duo is also complete and in the final editing stages: I can’t wait for live performances of this to transpire! The piece is based on a poem by Jeffrey Bean (a poet that the duo picked) that I got to choose called “Encyclopedia of the Wheat.” It is 18 short verses focused on wheat from many creative angles. My piece took 5 of those verses to inspire each movement and the piece as a whole is called Dream of Wheat.
January 2014
November 2013
11/12/13 received master teaching rank of Shihan from my shakuhachi teacher! Read the blog post about it here.
July 2013
Now available: clarinet score and tape part for Invisible Orthodoxy
This composition won First Prize in the 2013 International Clarinet Association Composition Competition. The world premiere is happening in Assisi, Italy at the 2013 Clarinet Convention and is being played by Stephan Vermeersch. [July 27, 2013 at the Metastasio Theatre] This is a fun piece to practice, great for clarinet recitals and a great audio track to listen to when you are not playing the piece! It features and exploits: aggressive and difficult rock riffs, quarter-tone gestures and sincere melodic moments.
June 2013
A great little movie about a really rewarding film score project I did with Jesse Solomon Clark at Agents del Futuro.
May 2013
This is a triumphant shakuhachi rendition of an extreme metal song by Lamb of God from the May 11, 2013 Berkeley Rose Labyrinth Concert.
January 2013
Brand new digital single, a Zen encore for our post-apocalyptic times: