Born in Kobe. She graduated from the Kyoto
City University of Arts with an award from
the Kyoto Music Society. In 1991 she traveled
to the Netherlands to study baroque singing
with Prf. Max van Egmond at the Academy for
Early Music, Amsterdam, and to study aspects
of vocal ensemble technique ranging from
Gregorian Chant to the renaissance and baroque
periods with Dr. Rebecca Stewart at Brabants
Conservatorium. Received her diploma in 1995,
Midori has given concerts in various countries
in Europe and in Japan. She appears as a
soloist in cantatas and oratorios, as a member
of vocal ensembles and sometimes in a contemporary
music group as well. Midori recently performed
Bach's "Kantaten" with Masaaki
Suzuki, Schutz's "Weihnachtshistorie",
Bach's "Motetten" with Sigiswald
Kuijken, F. Landini's works with an early
music group "Anthonello".
Midori won a prize at the festival of contemporary
music in Belgrade.
