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Atsuko Ueda

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The soprano Atsuko Ueda, based in Hokkaido, has made the essence of Japanese art song her life’s study. This is her second album, with the distinguished Yoshio Tsukada at the piano. Entitled “Kofuru Uta” (Songs of Longing), it explores the world of love as drawn by four composers, setting Heian-period poets and modern poets alike.”What I always come back to is that wonderful voice. Anyone who hears that youthful, lustrous sound will surely recognise it as something quite out of the ordinary.” (Midori Minawa, soprano)Born in Yubari, Hokkaido. She graduated in voice from Ueno Gakuen University. With Hokkaido Nikikai she has appeared as Laetitia in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, the Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflote and Micaela in Carmen, among other roles. She has sung solo parts in the Mass in B minor, the St John Passion, Messiah, th