Composer and performer Ned Rothenberg has spent his career traversing different musical worlds.
He has worked extensively as both a composer and performer in the jazz and improvisation scenes, playing alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute.
Rothenberg, 62, has also trained and played with traditional performers and taken part in the improvisation, new music, jazz and ³ó¨²µ²¹°ì³Ü (traditional Japanese music) scenes.

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