Cornelius Boots | |
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Occupation(s) | Composer |
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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[ citation needed], 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]