Akira Tachikawa
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Akira Tachikawa ({{langx|ja|太刀川 昭, Tachikawa Akira}}, 1961ｰ) is a Japanese countertenor, described as "one of a very few accomplished Japanese counter-tenors".{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Tachikawa-Akira.htm|title=Akira Tachikawa (Counter-tenor)|publisher=Bach Cantatas|accessdate=15 April 2015}}
A 1980 graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, in which he studied under Kounosuke Watanabe and Ryousuke Hatanaka, he has since obtained work as a singer, particularly in Baroque music in Europe, where he moved in 1986. He has performed with the Bach Collegium Japan under their conductor Masaaki Suzuki.{{cite book|title=Gramophone Classical Good Guide 2003|url=https://archive.org/details/gramophoneclassi00jame_0|url-access=registration|year=2002|publisher=Gramophone|isbn=978-0-86024-902-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/gramophoneclassi00jame_0/page/68 68]}}
Discography
In 1995 he was a soloist in the first volume of Bach Collegium Japan's recording of the complete Bach cantatas on BIS Records. After these performances of the early cantatas BWV 4 and BWV 150 he went on to record other cantatas and the Magnificat BWV 243.
Contemporary music:
- A.Danilevski. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys6XiTyO1_4 'Koans. Fragment of Consciousness']. 2016, Centaur, USA, CRS 348 (ensemble Syntagma)
- A.Danilevski. 'The Uncertainty Principle", 2012, Carpe Diem, D (ensemble Syntagma)
Early Music
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyaFgfgZnI&t=7s. Songé .i.songe. J. de Lescurel. Chansons et Dit enté.] 2014, Facsimile Rec., (ensemble Syntagma)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etFhT6nPybs Rosa et Orticha]. 2012, Carpe Diem, D. (ensemble Syntagma)
- Stylems. Italian music from XIVth c., 2012, Challenge Classics, NL (ensemble Syntagma)
- Gautier d'Epinal. Remembrance. 2008, Challenge Classics, NL (ensemble Syntagma)
- Touz esforciez. Trouvères en Lorraine. 2004, Pierre Verany, F (ensemble Syntagma)
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