Véronique Piron

INTRODUCTION to JAPANESE MUSIC - workshop, master-class

This part is dedicated to Music Schools, Conservatoriums, and Higher Education
for traditional music or instrumental (flutes, wind instruments) classes, and ensembles

- Flutists and wind instruments players : the Shakuhachi
What special features of playing a flute made of 5 playing holes, built on a pentatonic?
How from one’s own instrument, metal or wood flute or other wind instrument,
can we appropriate the playing technics of this bamboo flute?

- To musicians : Japanese Music
What special features for this Japanese music?
Japanese ”music” or Japanese ”music-s”?
What about the use of modes?
What about the exploitation of time and pulsation?
What relation to sound texture and musical gesture?

- An approach using practice :
phrasing, playing technics, melodies, pieces, repertoire(s)
using imitation, improvisation, scores and notations

Shakuhachi initiation workshop

Concert - Lecture

The major genres of Japanese music seen through the prism of its bamboo flutes
(horizontal flutes tryuteki, nohkan, shinobue, and shakuhachi, vertical flute)

Véronique Piron holds a ”Diplôme d’Etat” (French State Diploma) and a ”Certificat d’Aptitude” (Professor Licence) for teaching traditional music. She has conducted a Japanese music workshop for all kind of instruments during 7 years in a local conservatorium in Brittany in France, which allowed her to establish a basis for pedagogical reflection, which gave opportunities to many master-classes in conservatoriums in different places in France, starting from 1997.
She has also intervened for Higher Education, at ”Le Pont” (Pôle d'Enseignement Supérieur de Bretagne Pays de Loire, France) at the traditional music department.

She has been invited at University Paris 8 for a study day on Iannis Xenakis’s piece Nyûyô (2024), with Henri Tournier (bansuri) for an India-Japan meeting in Quimperlé/Brittany in 2015, at the Symposium on Orientalism at the Grand Avignon Conservatorium in 2013, at the Symposium on Asiatic Music at the University (CFMI) in Rennes in 2005, etc.