Cornelius Boots Explained
| Cornelius Boots |
| Occupation: | Composer |
| Associated Acts: | Edmund Welles |
| Website: | http://corneliusboots.com |
Cornelius Boots (Cornelius Shinzen Boots) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.[1] Best known for founding and leading Edmund Welles, the only composing bass clarinet quartet in the world, he now mainly plays and composes for the shakuhachi flute having retired from bass clarinet in 2015[2]
He received his shakuhachi master teaching’s license (Shihan)[3] from Grand Master Michael Chikuzen Gould[4] in 2013. He has recorded five albums and performs internationally.[5] He played on stage during Sony's E3 2018 conference, prior to the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima, a samurai-based video game.
Boots mostly plays taimu shakuhachi, which are long, wide-bore flutes noted for their deep tones.[6]
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Notes and References
- News: Cornelius Boots. Knolls. Forest. San Francisco Classical Voice. 2018-02-03. en. 2018-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20180204000724/https://www.sfcv.org/music-teachers/cornelius-boots. live.
- Web site: Boots . Cornelius . Post by Boots . . 2023-01-27 . 2023-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230921122612/https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0FSJ6wTnH3CYUXhAmGfxaQBgUdVRREb3W9yn4jEXVqCBhZ2Y3UMHoHssFpMV54Kj7l&id=100038628468906&mibextid=Nif5oz . live .
- http://www.komuso.com/people/people.pl?person=1849 The International Shakuhachi Society – Biography: Boots, Cornelius Shinzen
- http://www.komuso.com/people/people.pl?person=658 The International Shakuhachi Society – Biography: Gould, Michael Chikuzen
- Web site: New Music USA – Presentation: Cornelius Boots . 2017-04-16 . 2017-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170417155147/https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/cboots/ . live .
- Web site: Mujitsu/Taimu Shakuhachi – Ken LaCosse. www.mujitsu.com. 2019-02-09. 2019-03-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20190318235016/http://mujitsu.com/taimu.html. live.
