The Japanese baritone, Tomohiro Michael Terada, studied from 2007 to 2011 at Kunitachi College for Music in Tokyo with Mr. Koji Yamashita. He lives in Germany since 2012 and studied singing with Elisabeth Schmock until May 2015 at the Academy of Music in Darmstadt. From 2015 to 2018, he completed his master studies at the University of Music and Dance Cologne with Professor Mario Hoff. In April 2014, a scholarship enabled him to attend the Lied Academy "Heidelberger Frühling" with Brigitte Fassbaender and Thomas Quasthoff. He also completed master-classes and received impulses from Tom Krause, Rudolf Piernay, Uwe Heilmann, Christoph Prégardien, Christine Schäfer, Klesie Kelly-Moog, Edda Moser, Michael Hampe, Igor Folwill, Gabriele Rech.
In April 2015 Michael Terada made his musical debut at "Projekt Jugend-Theater Darmstadt as Conferencier in he musical Cabaret. In April 2016, he celebrated his role debut as Demitrius in Benjamin Britten's opera The Midsummer Night's Dream. This was followed by the role of Ramiro in Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnol at Theater Aachen. For the 2016-2017 season he was Marco in G. Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Harlequin in R. Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Conte Perrucchetto in J. Haydn's La fedeltà premiata. In 2019-2020 season, he sang Escamillo in Georges Bizets Carmen at Die komische Oper am Rhein.
For the Concert Repertoire, Michael Terada was the bass soloist in J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) and Magnificat (BWV 243); Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (Aachen) and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem (Darmstadt). In 2014 he also sung in Luciano Berio's Coro under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.
Michale Terada also regularly gives recitals of Lieder, among them - F. Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (Aachen) and Winterreise (Japan) and Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and R. Strauss' Vier Ernste Gesänge (Cologne). |