Nina Haarer is a German Shakuhachi player and teacher.
Initially trained as a singer and piano player, Nina discovered the shakuhachi when she was still a teenager, along with the Japanese language.
In 2004 she started lessons with Jim Franklin in the styles of Chikuhō and Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshūkan (KSK).
In 2018 she was awarded the KSK Europe Scholarship and studied with Furuya Teruo in Tokyo.
She was awarded a shihan menjō in 2019.
Besides the traditional repertoire Nina combines the shakuhachi with different forms of art and genres, like rock music, modern dance or theater. Her goal is to bring the shakuhachi to a younger generation and she found a new audience with the gothic medieval rock band Totentanz Strumpfsockig. Other regular projects have been: DieTanzKompanie by Grégory Darcy, Theater Hebebühne and the band Nerves (until 2020).
She is also including the shakuhachi in her profession as a music therapist.
Nina is the current secretary of the European Shakuhachi Society.