Tenor
Born in: Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2nd place, Voice Section, The 20th Tokyo Music Competition 2022

Musical Study Experiences

March 2005 Graduated from Aichi Prefectural Jishukan Senior High School
March 2009 Graduated from the Vocal Course of the Department of Performance & Composition, the Faculty of Music Studies, Kunitachi College of Music
March 2013 Completed the Music Course of the Department of Music Education, Tokyo Gakugei University Graduate School of Education
March 2015 Completed the 58th masterclass course at the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Institute
August 2019 Completed the summer course at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with full tuition exemption

Teachers

Studied vocal under SAITO Takashi, HIRAYAMA Hatsuki, ONO Tetsuya, and Carol BYERS.
Studied musical performance under NAKAMURA Hatsuho.

Musical Careers

2015	1st Place, Tama Fresh Classical Music Concert 2015
2016	2nd Place, the 28th Takarazuka Vega Music Competition Tenor Special Award, the 46th Concorso di Lirica Italiana (Italian Vocal Music Competition, Japan)
2017	Performed as the tenor singer in R.Strauss's “Der Rosenkavalier,” presented by the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre, at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
2018	Performed as Rinuccio in Puccini's “Il trittico: Gianni Schicchi,” presented by the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre, at the New National Theatre, Tokyo
2019	2nd Place, the 38th Music Contest in Iizuka (Fukuoka) 1st Place, the 37th Soleil Vocal Competition
2020	Performed as Fujiwara no Terufusa in “Kurenai Tennyo (The Crimson Goddess),” presented by the Japan Opera Foundation MAEKAWA Kensho Tenor Recital organized by Agency of Cultural Affairs, Governmnent of Japan; and Japan Federation of Musicians at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall
2021	Finalist, Voice Category, the 90th Music Competition of Japan Performed as Alwa in Berg's “Lulu,” presented by the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre, at the Shinjuku Bunka Center, Main Hall
2022	2nd Place, Voice Section, the 20th Tokyo Music Competition

Further Activities

Maekawa undertakes performance planning and opera productions as a representative of Yu Music Planning. In 2017, he planned and performed in “Prayer for Hometown Reconstruction and regeneration” in Hirono, Fukushima. Since then, he was commissioned by the town to be a Dream Ambassador Hirono. In the same year he also performed in Tokyo-HARUSAI Marathon Concert.
He has performed as a soloist in Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Schubert’s Masses, etc.

Repertoire

Opera
HANDEL: “Alcina” as Oronte
MOZART:
　“Così fan tutte” as Ferrando
　“Don Giovanni” as Don Ottavio
　“Le nozze di Figaro” as Don Basilio and Don Curzio
　“Die Zauberflöte” as Tamino
BELLINI:
　“Norma” as Pollione
　“I Puritani” as Lord Alturo Talbo
DONIZETTI:
　“L'elisir d'amore” as Nemorino
　“Don Pasquale” as Ernesto
　“Lucia di Lammermoor” as Edgardo
VERDI:
　“La traviata” as Alfredo
　“Rigoletto” as Duca di Mantova
　“Macbeth” as Macduff
PUCCINI:
　“La Bohème” as Rodolfo
　“Tosca” as Cavaradossi
　“Madama Butterfly” as Pinkerton
　“Gianni Schicchi” as Rinuccio
MASCAGNI: “Cavalleria Rusticana” as Turiddu
BIZET: “Carmen” as Don José
MASSENET: “Hérodiade” as Jean
R.STRAUSS:
　“Der Rosenkavalier” as an Italian Singer
　“Die Liebe der Danae” as Four Kings
BERG: “Lulu” as Alwa
DAN Ikuma: “Yuzuru” as Yohyo

Song Cycles
BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte
SCHUBERT:
　Die schöne Müllerin
　Winterreise
SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe
LISZT: 3 sonetti di Petrarca
JANÁČEK: Zápisník zmizelého (in Czech)

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