Biography

Nozomi Ninomiya is a Japanese singer. She started to study the piano at the age of 4.​​ ​DC3_6687

She studied singing at the Toho Gakuen University of Music. During the University years she was an exellent student and she took part to many performances at the school. In 2001 she goes for the first time in Italy to study Italian language in a summer campus in Rimini. When she come back in Japan Nozomi complete the preparatory course for singer at the Nikikai agency. In 2008 she took her degree at the Toho Gakuen University.

In 2009 she moved to Italy to study singing and Italian opera repertoire. At firs in the beautiful city of Verona where she attended the course at the conservatory and sing, like soloist in the Church of S. Anastasia.

​In 2010 she moved to Parma, the beautiful city of Verdi and Toscanini. In this period, with other japanese students, she founded the “Kizuna Choir”, to help the japanese peaple affected by the Tsunami (2011). With the choir she performed in many Italian cities and in 2010 she performed in a soloist recital in Sicily singing the most beautiful opera arias.  ​
In the Conservatory’s period she took part in many operas productions: She play the role of “Cherubino” (The marriage of Figaro, Mozart) and “Norina” from Don Pasquale, Donizetti. In 2012 she play the role of “Marianna” from Il Signor Bruschino, Rossini with the Toscanini Orchestra (ORER). In Semptember 2012 she play the role of “Dorabella” (Cosi fan Tutte, Mozart) in a production at Stuttgart (Germany). ​

In 2012 she took her degree at the Conservatory of Parma with a final thesis about the Italian Opera: the relationship​​​​​​​ between​​​​​​​​Opera Seria and Opera Buffa.​​

She attended numerous masterclasses: in 2005, she completed a master class at Kanazawa Music Festival with Uwe Heilmann and in Italy with Giorgio Apollonia, Amarilli Nizza, Lucia Rizzi and William Matteuzzi.​

In 2013 Nozomi win the fist prize at the 13th Burckhardt International Competition (Tokyo).​

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