Curriculum Vitae of Maki TAKIMOTO (soprano singer)
◇Maki is a young soprano singer from Tokyo Japan. She is in additiory blessed with a rich natural talent as actress, songwriter, dancer, producer, and chorale conductor. She has given concerts not only in Japan but also in Europe countries , The USA and Thailand.
◇Maki was born at Mito-city, Ibaraki-prefecture, of Japan, in 1990(2533). She had an acute ear for sounds from her early age and started her musical career as a member of The NHK① Children's Choir at Mito② when she was a junior high school student.
◇Maki has graduated from the Department of Vocal Music at The Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2014(2557). She devoted to vocal music under Professors, Yoko OHSHIMA and Chikako TAKAHASHI. Her university is the most prestigious national institute in the area of classical music education in Japan.
◇Maki has received the award of The Third Place in The 11th Japan Player's Competition 2009 .Best Performance Award in The 19th Japan Classical Music Competition 2009. A Member of “The 24th Ibaraki Prefecture's Best Singers and Artists 2014”(Sponserd by the Art Tower Mito, whose director general is maestro Seiji OZAWA). and The Second Place (no First Place for this year) in the 24th Classical Music Competition in Japan(2014).
◇Activities in 2014
Maki performed as soloist, at Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park in Thailand, Environmental Play with dance and music concert at Official Residence of Ambassador of Japan to European Union in Bergium at Maison de la culture du la Japon in France, at the United Nation Headquarters in Europe in Switzerland. At The Art Tower Mito in Japan and at Mito Branch of NHK in Japan.
In the year of 2014, she carried out her musical performances at (1) DPI・NGO Classic Live for the United Nations ,(2) Music Unit ‘ffake’(trial for crossover) and (3) ‘Harmonia Ensemble Chamber Choir’ (TV programme).
◇Performances before 2014
“Musical Drama;Anne of Green Gables” at Tokyo International Forum, Japan.
“Reader's Theater Sarcophagus (Stone Coffin) Chernobyl”.
“Kiyomitsu Obana’s Fantastic-Moment,” played as principal soprano at Suntory Hall Tokyo , at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo Cultural Center), Japan.
Environmental Play Concerts with Dance and Music, in Japan and overseas as a representative from Japan (DPI・NGO Classic Live for The United Nations).
Musical play “CHICAGO” at Sogakudo Concert Hall of The Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music .
[Note]
Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).
Mito City (100km from The center of Tokyo) is a historical place where one of the three major branch families in The Tokugawa shongunate feudalistic society used to be residing to govern the whole neighborhood.