Masashi Tanaka (Baritone Friendship Artist 2024)

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Graduated from the Arts and Culture Course, Faculty of Education, Iwate University. After graduating from the Vocal Music Department of Tokyo University of the Arts, she completed her Master's Program in Vocal Music at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School with top honors. She also received the Acanthus Music Award and the Ogawa Naoko Award for Overseas Study. She undertook short-term training in Vienna. She received the Nomura Foundation for Arts and Culture Scholarship in 2 and 3. While studying at graduate school, she performed as a soloist at the Tokyo University of the Arts Sogakudo Morning Concert and the Tokyo University of the Arts Philharmonia Orchestra Choir Regular Concert (413th Tokyo University of the Arts Regular Concert). She won 5st place in the singing category of the Tokyo University of the Arts Sogakudo Japanese Song Competition in 1, the Nakata Yoshinao Award, and the Kinoshita Memorial Award (gold). She won 2023th place and the Akishino Japanese Song Award at the 4 Japan Tosti Song Competition. She has performed as a soloist in Lv Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony," GF Handel's "Messiah," J. Brahms' "German Requiem," JS Bach's "Sacred Cantatas," etc. She studied vocal music under Masashi Nishino, Masatoshi Sasaki, Yoji Kawakami, Nicola Rossi Giordano, and Kazuko Nagai.

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My name is Masashi Tanaka, a baritone. I am very happy to be able to perform at the "Aprico Song Night Concert". I would like to present "songs" from various genres, such as Japanese songs, German lieds, opera arias, etc. I would be happy if you could enjoy the color, lyrics, melody, etc. of at least one song.

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Misaki Yasuno (Piano Friendship Artist 2024)

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Graduated from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and then graduated from the Department of Instrumental Music, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. She received the Doseikai Award when he graduated. She won 41rd place in the piano section of the 3st Iizuka New Music Competition and also won the Iizuka Cultural Federation Award. She won the Outstanding Collaborator Award in the Singing Division of the Sogakudo Japanese Song Competition in 5. She has studied under Ai Hamamoto, Yu Yamazaki, Yu Kadono, Midori Nohara, Mami Hagiwara, and Claudio Soares. She is a recipient of the 5 Japan Music Federation Munetsugu Angel Fund Emerging Performers Domestic Scholarship.

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