Kôske Nozaki (Tokyo, 1988) began playing the recorder at age of 9. He loved the friendliness of the simple flute and its variable possibilities in music performance, had a lot of curiosity not only for its repertoires but in occidental culture and wind instrument making.
He studied recorder in the Early Music department in The National Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) which was directed by Masaaki Suzuki. There Kôske obtained his Bachelor's degree in music and he was singing in the choir, which performed Bach's cantatas and he was also a member of the Irish folk band in his spare time.
After three years of working as a musician and recorder teacher in Japan, he moved to Europe. He has got his Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where he studied recorder with Reine-Marie Verhagen and Daniël Brüggen. His master research has been successfully finished with the title, "A practical exploration of the historical fingerings of Baroque Recorders in England, France, and Germany." He then studied in CRR de Paris with Sébastien Marq as a scholarship trainee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, and has got his concert diploma by unanimity of the jury.
Kôske has performed and organized dozens of solo and chamber music concerts and has experience educating through direct teaching, as well as writing and playing for Japanese textbooks, such as the educational program of NHK.
He is one of the few musicians worldwide specializing in French flageolets and historical-fingered Baroque recorders. He regularly performs in Ensemble La Reveuse in France and he is a member of La Strada in Japan. He also performed at several international Early Music festivals such as in Bruges, Utrecht, Deventer, Vanves, and Belgrade in Serbia.
He is currently studying Baroque bassoon with Jeremie Papasergio and musette de cour with François Lazarevitch to continue his journey in 18th-century French music interpretation.