Training:
• École normale de musique in Paris; study with Edith
Selig and Chantal de Buchy
• Nikikai Center for professional opera study
Professional experience:
• Twelve operatic roles
• Soloist in works of Beethoven and Mahler, performed in
the major halls of Japan
• Graduate assistant in voice, Tokyo University of Music
Prizes and awards;
• 2005 – finalist in the Don Giovanni International
Competition (Verona); Spedidem Prize, UFAM International
Music Competition; Duo Prize; International Competition
for the Performance of French Song (Toulouse)
• 2001-2004 – second prize at the Tokyo Music
Competition; third prize at the Opera and Song
International Competition; finalist at the Hans Gabor
Belvedere International Singing Competition (Vienna)
Japan
October 16, 1974
SEMI-FINALS
MAURICE RAVEL Le paon
JOSEPH MARX Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht
GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL « Piangero la sorte mia » ~
Giulio Cesare
OTTO NICOLAI « Nun, eilt herbei » ~ Die lustigen Weiber
von Windsor
JULIEN BILODEAU Portraits; prologue
FINALS
RICHARD STRAUSS « Beim Schlafengehen » ~ Vier letzte
Lieder
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART « In quali eccessi…Mi tradi » ~
Don Giovanni
JULES MASSENET « Il est doux, il est bon » ~ Hérodiade
GIACOMO PUCCINI « Tu, tu, piccolo Iddio » ~ Madama
Butterfly
