Walter Nowick (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Nowick (born January 29, 1926) was an American teacher of Rinzai Zen; one of the earliest and most important teachers in the United States. He was a Juilliard-trained pianist and a veteran of World War II. He studied Zen in Japan for sixteen years while teaching university-level piano and voice there, then returned to the United States to teach music and Zen in Surry, where he founded Moonspring Hermitage. He founded the Surry Opera Company in the mid-1980s and retired from formal Zen teaching in 1985.