Jeffrey Lependorf, Director of Music Omi, received a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory. He also received the venerable name “Koku” (“empty nothingness”) from Kinko Master, Yoshinobu Taniguchi. His Masterpieces of Western Music audio course is available through Barnes & Noble’s “Portable Professor” series. Jeffrey has performed and had works performed across the United States; in Austria, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. A composer of operas and chamber music, he is also a certified master of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute, and has helped create a new repertoire of music for this ancient instrument. His music has been performed around the globe - literally. A recording of his Night Pond for solo shakuhachi was launched into space when the shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard the Russian space station Mir.
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