Who is "I"?
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Akemi Sasaki
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 3rd Startup Grant
Business Overview
It is a vocal concert combining the worldview of Japanese literature and German music by "Eisler and Hindemite songs contemporary with Rampo" and. Based on a song depicting a German society filled with the smell of blood, dust, and steel in the 1920s, it focuses on the solitude and misfortune of the "I," the chair craftsman who appears in "The Human Chair," and eventually transforms into the chair craftsman himself.
[Performers]
Mezzo-soprano: Akemi Sasaki
Piano: Fumi Shimizu
[Staff]
Composition: Takuya Nemoto
Art: Natsuki Yamaguchi
Production: Yoshiko Kanou
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, September 15, 2024
- Venues
- Hakuyumi (Minato Ward, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Akemi Sasaki]
Born in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. His main repertoire is trouser roles such as Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro" and Duke Orlovsky in "Komori", as well as Italian Baroque such as Monteverdi. 2019~2024 Appeared at Seiji Ozawa Music School. He also performs performances through independent planning, and also writes scripts and lyrics from planning. So far, he has planned and performed in performances on the theme of women surrounding Mozart, "Two Women: Mozart Beloved" and "Two Women: Aloisia and Bézelle (Grant: Arts Council Tokyo)".
Graduated from Ueno Gakuen University's performer course. He has studied vocal music with Yu Nishio, Katsunori Kono, Masako Teshima, Yoko Murakami, Makiko Yamashita, and Yuki Kobayashi. Took master classes with V. Lukianets and M. Devia. Currently, he studied baroque vocal music with Takuya Nemoto and Alexander technique with Eiko Kanemoto.