Being a professional musician and guitar player since 1982, I first encountered the shakuhachi in 2004 and took lessons with Antonio Enzan Olías in Madrid for some years.
About the same time, I began making shakuhachi and in 2008 and 2009, I travelled to Japan and participated in the jinashi making workshops directed by John Kaizan Neptune at Mejiro, Tokyo and received making lessons from Chiku Za, at his home in Nagano mountains. I also took playing lessons with Tanaka Koumei, Atsuya Okuda, and Chiku Za.
After my first travel to Japan, I made some jinashi flutes for Antonio Olías and since then I have been selling flutes regularly. In 2010, I went to Japan again, and also received playing lessons from Etsuzan Fujiyoshi, and Justin Senryu Williams.
I organized the first jinashi shakuhachi making workshop in Madrid, directed by Chiku Za and assisted him in a workshop at the ESS Shakuhachi Summer School in London 2011, and at another workshop in Madrid in 2012. At the ESS Summer School in Barcelona in 2013, I organized the making workshops directed by John Neptune and helped teaching the basic construction techniques.
I only make jinashi flutes and my approach to flute making is very open, trying to find every bamboo’s particular voice. I specialise in making long flutes for normal or even small hands, and lately I am also interested in making very small flutes making which is great fun.