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Tokyo Music Competition

OKUAKI Daiki

OKUAKI Daiki

Bass
Born in: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
3rd place, Voice Section, The 19th Tokyo Music Competition 2021

Musical Study Experiences

March 2012 Graduated from the 16th class of Music Department, Kai Seika High School
March 2016 Graduated from the Vocal Course of Musashino Academia Musicae
March 2018 Completed master's degree in the Vocal Course at the Graduate School of Musashino Academia Musicae

Teachers

Studied singing under KAMEI Yoji, KISHIMOTO Chikara, Luther-Hiroshi ICHIMURA, TAKAHASHI Tatsuya, and Elena RIZZO.
Studied Russian diction under Lilliana ZOLOTOUKHINA.

Musical Careers

2017 1st Place, Professional Students Category, the 2nd Russia Vocal Competition
2018 1st Place, Professional General Public Category, the 3rd Russia Vocal Competition
Gold Prize, the 48th Concorso di Lirica Italiana (Italian Vocal Music Competition, Japan)
2019 Finalist, Voice Category (Opera), the 88th Music Competition of Japan
2021 3rd Place, Voice Section, the 19th Tokyo Music Competition

Further Activities

From April 2018 through June 2021, Okuaki was the resident member as a bass singer at the Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo. In 2018, he appeared in the TV program "THE Karaoke Battle," aired on TV TOKYO network. Other TV appearances include the documentary of the Music Competition of Japan "Watashi to yu na no gakki (Me being a musical instrument)" on NHK in 2019. During his residency period at the Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, he performed in Tokyu Silvester Concert 2019-2020 and went on a tour in Angers and Nantes in France and in Monte Carlo in Monaco.

Repertoire

Operas
"Rigoletto" as Sparafucile
"Il barbiere di Siviglia" as Don Basilio
"Don Giovanni" as the Commander
"L'enfant et les sortilèges" as the Fauteuil and the Tree
and more

Solo including religious music
ROSSINI: Stabat Mater
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9
VERDI, FAURÉ, and MOZART: Requiem
and more

In March 2022, Okuaki is scheduled to perform in Shostakovich's Symphony No.14 as a bass soloist led by WADA Kazuki in Nagoya city, Aichi.

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