Miyamoto Masamitsu born on September 28, 1972 is a Japanese opera singer and a vocalist. He comes from Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture.
He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
He was a member of the Japan Vocal Academy. In 2003, he participated in "Desire Name Name Electric Train" and took spotlight with a good performance. Miyamoto directed "Don Giovanni" which became the opera debut for the next year.
In 2006, he also appeared in the role of Gurielmo at "Kozi van Tutte" directed by Miyamoto Amemono (the 61st Cultural Affairs Art Festival Grand Prize).
Last January he also appeared at the New National Theater "La Boheme". Also, unique recitals are highly motivated and appreciated, and Tokyo Opera City "B → C" (2004), Philia Hall "Song of Mozart" (2006), HAKUJU HALL "Good night" (2006), Tsuda Hall, Hakuju Hall "Italian song of the blue."
In 2005 the debut CD "Good night" was released, 2007 released "Tomorrow's Song", "A Thousand Wind". The opera's Japanese translation was taken as the life work, especially in "Demons of the Spermatic Girls", "Dialogue of the Carmelite Nuns" and gained high evaluation.
He also published books named "Miki Miyamoto and go to the opera" "If there was not a song" on the 24th of June, 2011.
The Japanese lyric baritone, Toru Kaku, completed his undergraduate studies in 2008 at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He went on to receive his Master of Music degree in 2008, focusing on the Lieder genre. Toru has a particular affection for German Lieder.
Toru Kaku been a member of the Nikikai Opera Master Class, and is now a member of the Bach Collegium Japan (Director: Masaaki Suzuki). Currently, he is working on expanding his opera repertoire. In 2009 Toru was awarded second place in the Yu-Ai-Lied Competition, and in 2012 he released his first CD.
Kei Kondo is a Japanese baritone opera singer, born in Nagano. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music and completed of the ninth grade at the New National Theater Opera Training Center. He made his debut in Opera with the title role "Don Giovanni". In the same performance, he has appeared as "Count of Figaro's Marriage" and "Kozi van Tutte" Don Alfonso. In addition, he got the topic of 2013 and appeared in King Lyman "Leah".
Mr Masanori Kato is a composer / pianist, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a first-class honors degree and then finished the master’s degree. He has written lots of works such as opera, orchestral works, chamber music works, songs and chorus for a various musicians, which have been highly-praised ever abroad.
He released the first piano solo album titled “SOLO” in 2001 and the music books of that CD also came out. “Five Sonnets” for a female chorus, and “ASHITA NO UTA”, a suite for chorus, words by Masumitsu Miyamoto and his other pieces also have been published in Japan. Mr Kato composed “Slovakian Rhapsody for Alto saxophone and Orchestra” commissioned by a fantastic saxophone player, Mr Nobuya Sugawa in 2005. It took a world premiere at Suntory Hall in Tokyo performed by Mr Sugawa and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr Sugawa recorded this Rhapsody in his album as a soloist (Seikyo Kim, conductor and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra). This work was also performed in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2009 and got a highly acclaim by full audience there.
Mr Kato’s first opera “YAMATANOOROCHI” (2006) had a great reputation on mass media such as Nikkei newspaper. Recently his new opera “Byakko” (2012) as a tribute to Fukushima recovery project won the 11th Yoshio Sagawa Music Award. His works have always beautiful and fresh lyricism inside keeping a distance from contemporary music and have broadcasted many times by NHK-FM radio. His producing ability and lecture skill have been highly praised so he deserves to be called a multi artist. He has appeared in many concerts so far as a pianist playing with so many famous musicians, too.
Kei Yonashiro is a baritone singer. After finishing his bachelor’s studies in piano performance at the Toho College of Music, Kei Yonashiro switched his major to singing for his Master’s study at the same institution, and he has since established a reputation as an authentic baritone to lead today’s vocal music scene in Japan. A graduate of the New National Theatre Opera Studio’s Training Programme for Opera Singers, he has studied in Milan as a Trainee of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists.
He has won numerous prizes, including the third prize at the 16th Mario del Monaco International Vocal Competition, as well as the first prize and the Yoshinao Nakata Prize at the 18thSogaku-do Jpanese Song Competition.He has appeared as Guglielmo in the Amon Miyamoto production of Cosi fan tutte, Apollo in Orfeo at the Hokutopia International Music Festival 2007, Escamillo in Carmen at the special concert performance at Seiji Ozawa Music Camp, Onegin in the Peter Konwitschny production of Eugene Onegin,and Belcore in L’elisir d’Amore with the New National Theatre,Tokyo Opera. He has also invited as a solo singer by major orchestras in Japan.
Masaaki Suzuki (鈴木 雅明 , Suzuki Masaaki, born 29 April 1954) is an award-winning Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.
He began playing organ professionally at church services at the age of 12. He earned degrees in composition and organ at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then earned Soloist Diplomas at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he studied harpsichord and organ with Ton Koopman and Piet Kee and improvisation with Klaas Bolt.
With this ensemble Masaaki Suzuki is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist at Yale University and director of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
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