Midori Suzuki (Soprano)

Born: Kobe, Japan

The Japanese soprano, Midori Suzuki, graduated from the Kyoto City University of Arts with an award from the Kyoto Music Society. After that she moved to the Netherlands in 1991 to study Baroque singing with Max van Egmond at the Academy for Early Music in Amsterdam. Her teachers at the Brabants Conservatory was Rebecca Stewart, who introduced her to the techniques involved in singing vocal ensembles from Gregorian chant to the Renaissance and Baroque. In 1994 she was a prize-winner at the Contemporary Music Festival in Belgrade.

Since receiving her diploma in 1995, Midori Suzuki has given concerts in many European countries as well as in her native Japan, appearing not only as a soloist in cantatas and oratorios but also as a member of vocal ensembles and with contemporary music groups. Midori Suzuki frequently appears as a soloist with the Bach Collegium Japan (Director: Masaaki Suzuki).

Source: Liner notes to Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CD 05472-77528-2 (Cantatas BWV 9, BWV 94 & BWV 187, conducted by Kuijken, 2001)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Sigiswald Kuijken

Soprano

BWV 9 [1^st], BWV 94, BWV 187, BWV 232

Masaaki Suzuki

Soprano

BWV 18, BWV 23, BWV 71, BWV 75, BWV 76, BWV 89, BWV 95, BWV 131, BWV 138, BWV 152, BWV 155, BWV 167, BWV 185, BWV 199
BWV 244, BWV 245, BWV 245 (DVD)

Masaaki Suzuki

Soprano

Member of Bach Collegium Japan:
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 2: BWV 71, BWV 106, BWV 131
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 5: BWV 18, BWV 143, BWV 161
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6: BWV 31, BWV 21 [1714/1720 edition]
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 7: BWV 61, BWV 63, BWV 132, BWV 172
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 8: BWV 22, BWV 23, BWV 75
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9: BWV 24, BWV 76, BWV 167
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 11: BWV 46, BWV 95, BWV 136, BWV 138
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 14: BWV 48, BWV 89, BWV 109, BWV 148

Links to other Sites

Midori Suzuki, soprano (BCJ)

Midori Suzuki, soprano [Japanese]