Mugen Taiko Dojo
P.O. Box 5124
Lanark
ML11 0WA
U.K.

telephone/fax:
01357 522 008

mail@taikodojo.com

The teachers at the Mugen Taiko Dojo are all senior members of the Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, with many years experience performing and teaching professionally.

Neil Mackie

Mackie trained in Japan with Masaaki Kurumaya Sensei from 1992 to 1994, obtaining a cultural visa further his training. In 1994 he returned to Britain to form Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers. In addition to performing taiko professionally since 1994, he taught UK’s first public taiko drum classes at the City Lit and Goldsmith’s College in London in 1995, and has since conducted classes at many venues throughout England and more recently in Scotland, including The Tramway and Strathclyde Arts Centre in Glasgow and St. Bride’s Centre in Edinburgh. His teaching work is now concentrated at the dojo itself.

Miyuki Williams

Co-founder of Mugenkyo, Miyuki also trained with Kurumaya Sensei in Japan 1992 – 1994, and has since taught hundreds of workshops to both adults and children all across the UK, as well as intensively at the dojo itself. In addition to the techniques of playing, Miyuki has also been researching the history and cultural background of taiko drumming, having written a paper on the art-form as part of her masters degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.