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Fumiko Ando

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A comet of exceptional brilliance: the long-awaited first solo album from Fumiko Ando.The debut solo album by Fumiko Ando, a soprano widely expected to take a central place in Japan’s vocal world. Secure technique, ample tone and rich musicianship carry her across a wide span of periods and languages, from Handel to Ksak Yamada, taking in Italian, German, Czech, Russian and Japanese song. A confident recital of favourites, gathering the pieces that have accompanied Ando as she has broadened her career, each of them sung with genuine personal attachment.Born in Sapporo. She completed the graduate course in voice (opera) at Kunitachi College of Music and the third intake of the New National Theatre Tokyo Opera Studio. After studying in Italy as an Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas study fellow, she returned to Italy as an overseas research student of the Rohm Music Foundation. Her teachers incl