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The Japanese baritone, Teru Yoshihara, studied singing and music pedagogy at Tokyo University, going on to study with C. Stara and L. Berengo in Milan.
Even as a student Teru Yoshihara developed a concert career, appearing as a soloist in Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn’s Requiem and L.v. Beethoven's Choral Symphony. In 1995 he made his operatic début in Japan as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. Among the many rôles that followed are those of the Count in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Germont in La traviata. He has more recently begun to appear as a guest artist in Germany at the Stuttgart Chamber Theatre. He is a member of the Stuttgart Musikhochschule Opera School and studied with Bernhard Gärtner.
Since 2007, Teru Yoshihara has been working as a lecturer and tutor of singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He was appointed Professor there in the summer semester of 2019. Among the singers who have studied with him and/or attended his master-classes: Arthur Canguçu (Baritone), Jo Holzwarth (Tenor), Patrik Horňák (Tenor), Jan Jerlitschka, (Counter-tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (Baritone).*** |
