Name of performance: Kobayashi Sara Soprano recital
Venue: Electric Culture Center The Concert Hall
Open: 2019/06/22 (Sat) 10:00
Notes:
※ Not a preschooler
Limited number of tickets: You can book up to 8 tickets in a single application. Application limit 4 times
Type of seats and fees:
All seats specified: ¥ 4,500
Biography:
Sara Kobayashi made her debut in 2006 in the role of Bastienne in Bastien und Bastienne (conducted by Michiyoshi Inoue).
Since then she has appeared in numerous opera roles including the Geisha in Iris (2008), Liù in Turandot (2009), and Adele in Die Fledermaus (2014) in the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s “Theatre Opera Series”; Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at Nissay Theatre (2009 and 2013); and Adele in Die Fledermaus (conducted by Yutaka Sado) at Hyogo Performing Arts Center (2011). She has participated in the premieres of many new operas, performing in the roles of the Madwoman in Sumidagawa by Akira Senju and Takashi Matsumoto, Aiko in Kamikaze by Shigeaki Saegusa (conducted by Naoto Otomo), and Murasaki in The Tale of Genji by Reiko Ninomiya and Nozomu Hayashi.
Kobayashi is also expanding her international career. In 2012, she made her European debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the Sofia National Opera, and appeared at the same theatre as Adina in a premiere production of L’elisir d’amore. She performed as soprano soloist in a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Musikverein in Vienna. She also won 2nd Prize at the Oscar Straus Operetta Competition.
In 2013, Kobayashi performed in the NHK New Year Opera Concert. In March 2014, she released her debut CD album on Nippon Columbia. In the New National Theatre’s 2014-15 season opening performance, she sang the role of Flower Maiden in a new production of Parsifal.
In 2015, on a tour of Japan from May to October, she gave outstanding performances as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro produced by Hideki Noda and conducted by Michiyoshi Inoue, and served as soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno in July.
Sara Kobayashi is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, where she also completed her postgraduate degree. Born in Tokyo, she moved to Vienna in March 2010, to hone her performance skills further. She was a recipient of a scholarship from the Nomura Foundation in 2010, and in 2011 she participated in the Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Residence Program for Emerging Artists. Her teachers have included Ayako Nakamura, Taikai Takahashi, Tomoko Shimazaki, Adele Haas and Walter Moore. She is a member of the Japan Vocalists Forum.
She first learned piano and classical ballet at age 5, and at 10 she began special auditing at Tamasaburo Bando’s theatre academy, studying classical Japanese dance. Her attraction to the stage led her at 17 to begin her study of voice in earnest.
Following upon her 2006 debut in a Michiyoshi Inoue Noborisaka Concert, she has been featured as a soloist in the Suntory Hall Coming-of-Age Day Concert, the Kazushi Ono Kokoro Fureai Concert, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Haydn’s The Creation, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Faure’s Requiem, among others. She has performed with professional orchestras that include NHK Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Ensemble Kanagawa.
Her opera roles have included Liù in Turandot, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Pamina in Magic Flute, Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Violetta in La Traviata and the Geisha in Iris. Her performance as Liù in Turandot with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and the Orchestra Ensemble Kanagawa under the baton of Michiyoshi Inoue was broadcast on Nippon Television Network in July 2009. She participated in Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto for two years running, in 2009 and 2010, playing the role of Gretel in the Opera for Young People production of Hansel and Gretel. She also played the same role with the Nippon Yomiuri Symphony at the Nissei Theater in 2009. In July of 2011, she sang Adele in Die Fledermaus, as conducted by Yutaka Sado at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center. The production featured members of the Vienna Philharmonic, and veteran singers like countertenor Jochen Kowalski, and it was a great success.
She commenced her international career in February 2012, debuting at the National Theatre in Sofia as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. In March she appeared at the same theatre as Adina in L’eslir d’amore, and she won second prize at the Oscar Straus Singing Competition in June. Subsequently she sang the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra at the Musikverein in Vienna, and in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in July with the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (OSPA) in Brazil.
In solo recitals since 2007, she has performed a large number of Japanese art songs, including the premieres of new works such as the opera Sumidagawa and the symphony of psalms The Tale of Genji by Akira Senju and Takashi Matsumoto, and the operas Manyo-syu/Futakami Banka and Manyo-syu/Asuka Kaze by Akira Senju and Madoka Mayuzumi. She has devoted herself wholeheartedly not only to the performance of new Japanese art songs, but to poetry recitation as well, and she is a member of the modern poetry performance group Voice Space.
She has garnered attention for her participation in Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, Tokyo’s La Folle Journée Music Festival, movie soundtracks, a Mastercard commercial, and various television appearances. In July 2010, she participated in a master class in Australia given by Mirella Freni and pianist Wolfram Rieger, and in May 2011 she attended one taught by baritone Tom Krause and soprano Teresa Berganza.
Profile:
March 1, 1981 Born from Tokyo.
Ikuta Iryu Satoshi is studied with Miyagi Shadaisen, Kanetsu Chieko. Completed the master's course of the same graduate school after graduating from the Department of Japanese Music at Tokyo University of the Arts University of Tokyo.
He is also involved in music composition and arrangement as well as performing traditional classical music (地 唄) and so on.
Belongs:
A collaboration group of poetry and music "VOICE SPACE" representative
Affiliation "Miyagikai" "Shionkai" "Forest" "Yoro no Kai" "Seven Star" belonging.
Award calendar
Received the Yabashi Academy Award at the 2nd Yabashi Academy Japanese Music Competition.
Received the Excellence Award at the 19th Kumamoto National Music Competition.
Playing:
Performed at the Japanese dance performance "Camille Claudel" (backed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs) in France and Switzerland.
We perform solo performance, solo player at the 92nd World Esperanto "Japan Evening".
Appeared in the reading work "Lullaby" in 2007, and received the role of Chuya Nakahara.
Participated in the regional creation project "2010 Japanese Music Region Revitalization Project", and conducted outreach at four elementary schools in Uki City, Kumamoto Prefecture.
She has appeared on the NHK Radio's welfare information program "Listen and Tell Me" for the first time in 2011, New Year Special, for six times.
Other works include Shuntaro Tanigawa, Mikiro Sasaki (Poet), Takeshiro Takahashi Second Generation Komuro Etsuro Takio, Kensaku Tanigawa (artist), Hori Hiroshi (doll teacher) and others.
Composition:
Invited performance at the ceremony "Gion Nonoharu" at the 110th anniversary of the establishment of Peking University, the world premiere of his own "love" by reading and a double song.
In the recitation musical "Yamazaki Yoko's World", he composes the story "The time of the cherry blossoms" and co-stars with actress Arika Arima. He composes the story "Misoka no Tsuki" and performs with the actress Akiko Koyama.
Composed a song from Kumamoto Prefectural Matsuhashi Nishi Support School.
Nara Dedicates the new work “Kotorone Todaiji” (poem: Oe Takako) in the dedication “Daibuku Club” performed at Todaiji Temple.
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