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WOMADELAIDE 2001
program highlights
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Riley Lee (Australia) |
| Riley Lee is Australia’s
only Grand Master of the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), one of the few outside
of Japan. He began playing the shakuhachi in Japan in 1971, and since
1986 has been a student of Katsuya Yokoyama, one of the world’s most respected
masters of the Zen inspired repertoire. Riley has toured internationally
as a full-time performer of taiko (Japanese festival drums) and the shakuhachi
with a group of traditional Japanese musicians, and has performed as a
solo artist throughout Australia. His forty recordings are sold worldwide
- latest solo CD ‘Deep Night’, and ‘Spring Sea’ a collaboration with harpist
Marshall McGuire released in May 2000. Riley is a co-founder of popular
Australian taiko group TaikOz, and in 1998 he founded Con Spirit Oz, featuring
music for shakuhachi, didgeridu, percussion and guitar. On New Year’s
Day 2000, Riley performed on the roof of the Sydney Opera House as one
of only four featured soloists in Australia’s contribution to the Millennium
Dawn performances, broadcast live around the world. |
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