Cornelius Boots

American composer and multi-instrumentalist

Bass Clarinet
Shakuhachi

Websitehttp://corneliusboots.com

Musical artist

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]

References

^ Knolls, Forest. "Cornelius Boots". San Francisco Classical Voice. Archived from the original on 2018-02-04. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
^ Boots, Cornelius. "Post by Boots". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
^ The International Shakuhachi Society – Biography: Boots, Cornelius Shinzen Archived 2017-04-17 at the Wayback Machine.
^ The International Shakuhachi Society – Biography: Gould, Michael Chikuzen Archived 2017-04-18 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "New Music USA – Presentation: Cornelius Boots". Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
^ "Mujitsu/Taimu Shakuhachi – Ken LaCosse". www.mujitsu.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2019-02-09.