Jonah Fortune is a Shakuhachi performer and teacher based in Montreal Canada.
he has been awarded a Jun Shihan teachers licence by his primary teacher Michael Chikuzen Gould, a grandmaster of the Dokyoku/Chikushinkai lineage created by Watazumi Doso Roshi and developed and expanded by Watazumi's top student Yokoyama Katsuya. While living in Kyoto for a music scholarship and on subsequent visits to Japan, Jonah had the opportunity to further study this style with grandmasters Michiaki Okada and Kinya Sogawa, and to study select Kinko/Jin Nyodo style pieces with grandmaster Yodo Kurahashi. He has had the opportunity to record and perform with several of his teachers in both Japan and the USA including performances at The historic Tofukuji temple complex in Kyoto and the museum of Kyoto. He has given solo concerts as well as performances alongside koto and western harp in both Japan and Canada as well as recording for film.
