Folk and Songs in Japan and Beyond

Matt Gillan is Professor of Musicology at International Christian University in Tokyo. His research focuses particularly on the music of Okinawa, theories of the voice in Japanese music, the shakuhachi and the uses of music in Japanese religions. He is also an active performer and teacher of Okinawan uta-sanshin in Tokyo.

Kiku Day is an ethnomusicologist, shakuhachi player, and Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focus is shakuhachi, and she performs traditional and new music, and improvises. She is a founding member of the European Shakuhachi Society and was Chair of the Executive Committee of the World Shakuhachi Festival 2018.

Patrick Huang graduated from SOAS University of London with a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology. He is currently a PhD student at Western University in Ontario. His research focuses on the transmission of Ancient Greek music knowledge between Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval period, as well as a comparative study between Ancient Chinese and Graeco-Latin musical systems.