Biographies & programs
26.5.24
16:10
Makiko Kawaguchi
Japan
Nao Ueda
Japan
Program
Franz Schubert
Auf dem See D 543 (Goethe) - 1R
Vedi quanto t’adoro D 510 (Metastasio) - 1R
Verklärung D 59 (Pope/Herder)
Nachtviolen D 752 (Mayrhofer)
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
1. Widmung (Rückert)
20. Weit, weit (Burns/Gerhard)
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
12. In dem Schatten meiner Locken" (Anonymous/Heyse)
36. Bedeckt mich mit Blumen" (Maria do Ceo/Geibel)
Goethe-Lieder
30. Ganymed
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
5. Phidelé (de Lisle) - 1R
9. Chanson triste (Lahor)
12. La vie antérieure (Baudelaire)
Emile Paladilhe
Psyché (Corneille)
Igor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
4. Sleep" (Fletscher)
5. Spring" (Nashe)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op.31
2. Under the greenwood tree - 1R
3. Blow, blow thou winter wind
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Makiko Kawaguchi
Mezzosoprano
Year of birth:
1991
Makiko Kawaguchi studied at the “Musashino Academia Musicae” (Japan) and at the Cologne University of Music and Dance.
Her many achievements include 1st place and in the song category at the 5th Tokyo International Vocal Music Competition, prize winner at the 31st International Singing Competition of the Schloss Rheinsberg Chamber Opera and 2nd prize at the Vocallis Song Award 2022.
In Tokyo she sang the title role in E. Humperdinck's “Hansel and Gretel” and the title role in M. Ravel's “L’Enfant et les sortilèges”. In the 2016/17 season she received her first engagement at the Theater Aachen, where she appeared in Puccini's “Suor Angelica” and “Il Tabarro”.
In 2019 she was an academic with the Berlin Radio Choir and took part in many concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Orchestra and NDR Orchestra.
Nao Ueda
Pianist
The Japanese pianist Nao Ueda studied piano at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan, where she was greatly inspired by Yukari Koyasu in the area of song creation. There she received her bachelor's and master's degrees as the best in her class. In October 2019 she began her studies with a focus on song design at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater with Prof. Burkhard Kehring. She completed her master's degree in May 2022 and the concert exam with distinction in June 2023.
In 2021 she won the 3rd duo prize at the Gustav Mahler Song Competition in Hamburg and in 2022 she won the 1st prize at the Luigi Nono International Chamber Music Competition.