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Hiroko Kawai
  
Hiroko Kawai is Lyric Soprano from Japan who has studied in Germany and the Netherlands. Before her European training, she earned a BA in Music Education from Hiroshima National University and a MA in Music Education and Singing Performance from Tokyo-Gakugei National University, as well as training at the Tokyo-Nikikai Opera Studio.

In 1987, Hiroko began to study at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart (the Academy of Music Stuttgart) in Germany, and also studied singing performance from an Alexander Technique perspective with Jean Stawski in Munich. In 1994, she was granted a Netherlands government scholarship and studied at the Conservatory Utrecht 1994. Since coming back to Japan in 1995, Hiroko has made several trip back to Europe to continue her singing training and to learn the Audio-Vocal course of the Tomatis Method.

Hiroko has performed with Ernst Ottensammer, the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Stravinsky String Quartet from St.Petersburg, and with the Dvorak Chamber Orchestra from Slovakia. She has also performed in numerous solo recitals throughout western Japan.
Her major teachers include Marianne Blok, Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, and Takehisa Kinoshita (for singing); Yehezkel Ein-Shay and Barbara Conable (for the Alexander Technique); Alfred Tomatis and Dominique Cannet (for the Tomatis Method); and Masaaki Hayakawa (for conducting).

She taught at Fukuyama University and Fukuyama-Heisei University, and is currently a vocal instructor at Chugoku College and the Asahi Culture Center. In addition, she offers private lessons for voice and body mapping in her home studio. Since 2000, she has also conducted the Fontana Kurashiki Chamber Choir.
Currently, Hiroko lives in western Japan, and is available to teach the Andover courses " What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body" and "What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body" at any location.

Hiroko Kawai  mail:andover-hiro@mx1.tamatele.ne.jp  Tel/Fax:+81(86)525-2835

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