【演奏活動】

東京芸術大学大学院音楽研究科修了。在学中に宮中桃華楽堂にて御前演奏。（宮内庁主催）

大学院卒業後は渡英し、BBCに出演、オーケストラとの共演などヨーロッパを中心に演奏を行う。国内ではPMFで客演演奏など、古典、現代曲、インスタレーションなど、ジャンルにとらわれず活動している。

一方、尺八本来の演奏、吹禅（江戸時代に普化宗の禅僧が演奏した古典本曲）をライフワークとし、音楽を通して禅の精神と身体性を伝えている。（HP:lenzankudo.com）

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演奏＆講演

 ■ ZEN2.0 （禅の国際カンファレンス、場所：鎌倉建長寺）2017年、2018年、2021年、2022年、2023年登壇

 ■ 清水寺　Film exhibition 「KIYOMIZU - Cycle of blessings」オープニングとクロージング曲で参加　（2024年）

 ■ 坂本龍一　series - incomplete "時光　Jiko"　でコラボレーション （2020年）

 ■ 禅の響　-ZEN no OTO- （2020年〜）

プロデュース

 ■ 新宿御苑　「菊花壇展ライトアップ」演奏＆演奏時の演出担当（2019年）

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メディア

■NHK World Japan 「Spiritual Explorers -吹禅」

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【その他の活動】

環境保全活動

■講演『日本文化から環境を考える』

禅の「空」の観点から、人間の在り方や、現在の偏った資本経済も必要である一方（お金も大事）、環境を中心に考える重要性をお話しています。また日常では何ができるのかについてもお話する事があります。

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【身体性のワークショップ・リトリート】

■ワークショップ『呼吸と尺八』

日常の仕事やストレスなどで、呼吸が浅くなっている方を改善します。

身体の使い方や、尺八を使っての呼吸法。日常でできるポイントをお伝えします。

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■リトリート『心身を知る～五感を感じよう』

『呼吸と尺八』を含めて、身体と心に気づきを与えるプログラムです。

身体性のアプローチ、感情と呼吸、空間の察知、食と内臓の関係、想像力を鍛えるなど、東洋哲学の観点を用いたプログラムになっています。

 

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Lenzan Kudo completed his studies at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Arts. While in university, he was selected as a representative to perform in front of the Imperial Family at Tokagakudo Imperial Palace concert hall in Tokyo. After graduation, he went to the U.K. He mainly performed in Europe, with appearances at the Japan Festival 2001 in the U.K. and on the BBC and performing with orchestras. After returning to Japan, he has performed　across Japan and other Asian countries. He also made a guest performance for The Pacific Music Festival. He has a wide range of repertoire on the Shakuhachi, from classical Honkyoku to contemporary music, and collaborates with many different genres of music.

Currently, Lenzan has been promoting Shakuhachi's original performance style, "Blowing Zen," from Kamakura, the city ofZen known for Kenchoji Temple, Japan's first full-fledged Zen temple. ("Blowing Zen" is a form of Zen practice that involves playing the Shakuhachi by monks of the Fuke sect in the Edo period. Those pieces are called classical Honkyoku.) Lenzan has mastered various physical disciplines such as yoga, Rolfing, Alexander Technique, and Chinese Qigong. He conveys the mind-body connection through Shakuhachi with his unique philosophy, which he has combined with Zen philosophy. Additionally, he embodies a Zen flow by handpicking bamboo from the bamboo grove and crafting the Shakuhachi himself. He also runs a shakuhachi dojo called "KODO" at Zenkyoin Temple, a Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism in Kitakamakura, where he teaches Shakuhachi to his students.

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■”ZEN2.0” Guest Shakuhachi performance in 2017,2018,2021,2022,2023 (International Zen conference held at Kenchoji, Japan’s first Zen Buddhist temple in Kamkura) 

■Kiyomizu-dera Film exhibition 「KIYOMIZU - Cycle of bessings」Opening & Closing 2024

■A collaboration work in Ryuichi Sakamoto series - "incomplete "  2020

    lenzan kudo + ryuichi sakamoto "時光 Jiko" 

　Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xoJcwvDD8&t=31s

■Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden “Chrysanthemum exhibition 2019 “

Night illuminations Shakuhachi performance and art produce

■ZEN no OTO   2020〜

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【Media】

NHK World Japan "Spiritual Explorers - Blowing Zen"

Weekly Economist 2022.3.1 "Passionate People 19" (in Japanese)

Scheduled to appear in the September issue of the monthly magazine "Chichi Zuiso".

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【Other activities】

Environmental conservation activities

■Seminar “Reconsider the environmental issues from a viewpoint of Japanese culture”

With Japanese Zen Buddhist philosophy, this seminar offers new understandings of Environmentalism; what it means to be human and the real relationship between capitalism and the environment. Through the study, you will also get some tips of what we can do for the environment in our daily life.

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【Workshop / Session】

 ■“Breathing and Shakuhachi” project: 

This program is mainly focused on Tanden breathing* and mindfulness with the tones and the breathing techniques of shakuhachi, to help people deepen their breath and reduce modern people’s stress.

Learn breath technique based on the total abandonment of any tension in the body and any mental interaction with breathing. Take notice of the messages of the breath. Your breath tells you.

* Tanden breathing; respiration by working the inner part of the lower abdomen just beneath the navel

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