Akemi Mizuno Tenor Recital

A Reki Mizuno Tenor Recital
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Concert begins 7:00 p.m. (Doors open 6:30 p.m.)
Sumida Triphony Hall (Small Hall)
All seats unreserved General 3,000 yen Students 1,500 yen

Performers
Tenor Akemi Mizuno
Piano: Yuto Awane


Profile of Mizuno
Born in Kagawa Prefecture, raised in Saitama, and currently resides in Nara City. She grew up listening to singing and watching her father, a vocalist, from a young age. Graduated from Tokyo College of Music, majoring in voice. She completed her master's degree at Tokyo College of Music. While still a student, she performed the roles of Rinuccio in "Gianni Schicchi," Eisenstein in "Die Fledermaus (performed in Japanese)," Camille in "The Merry Widow," and was a soloist in Mozart's "Coronation Mass. She has sung in the chorus of TV programs such as "Ongame no Nai Ongakukai" and "Nihon Meisho Album", sang tenor solo in the soundtracks of Daisuke Miura's "Ai no Uzuru" and Hajime Hashimoto's "Zutaboro", and was the singing coach for "Kita no Canaries", the 60th anniversary film of Toei Company. She has sung in a wide variety of vocal music-related activities, including the premiere of a series of songs on poems by Shigekichi Yagi, composed by Mikayo Hojo, sang solo at the state coming-of-age ceremony in Nara City in 2020, and served as a jury member for the International Vocal Music Competition in Tokyo.
She was awarded the Audience Prize at the 8th Romanian International Music Competition, the 2nd Prize of Excellence at the 33rd Soleil Music Competition, and the 2nd Prize of the Spanish Ambassador at the 6th International Competition of Spanish and Latin American Music.
He has studied voice under Kenji Mizuno and Shigehiro Sano, and Spanish songs under Yoichi Hattori. He is a member of the Japanese Society for Music Education and the Japanese Society for Musical Expression. After working as a part-time assistant at Tokyo College of Music, he is currently an associate professor at Nara University of Education.