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Nana Morimoto is a native of Kobe, Japan where, as the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, she pursued a dual major in the study of piano and voice at the Showa College of Music, the Showa School for Performing Arts, and the Japan Opera Society in Tokyo. Ms. Morimoto was privileged to study, train, and work with several opera legends including the famous Japanese tenor, Sakuzo Takada (高田作造) , who himself had trained under Luciano Pavarotti’s voice teacher, Arrigo Pola and concurrently studied opera score with Italian conductor and composer Gaetano Comelli.
As a student in Japan, Ms. Morimoto performed roles from Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and Così fun tutte, Offenbach’s Mesdames de la Halle, and Rossini’s L’equivoco stravagante. Simultaneously, as a pianist, she performed in numerous operas including Menotti’s The Telephone and Chip & His Dog, Verdi’s Te Deum and Aida, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rustiana, and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci. In Tokyo, she was former pianist for Japanese Folk Concert with the Silk Road Chorus, the Tokyo Artescenica Opera, and Meiji University Chorus. As the Music Director of Atsugi Children's Chorus, Ms. Morimoto directed several musicals including Snow White and The Sound of Music. After meeting Maestro Anton Guadagno in Tokyo, Ms. Morimoto relocated to the United States in 1997 to study opera and work with him at the Palm Beach Opera. As a member of Palm Beach Opera’s Resident Artist Program she performed in many roles including I Puritani, Un Ballo in Maschera, Tannhäuser, Tosca, La Boheme, and Alice in Wonderland. Her work as a rehearsal pianist created the opportunity to work with several eminent conductors including Anton Guadagno, Julius Rudel, and Bruno Aprea. Concurrently, she studied opera accompaniment with the esteemed Italian conductor, Massimo Morelli and worked with Carmela Altamura, Licia Albanese, and Anton Coppola in the Altamura Center in New York, the South Florida Opera Company, Miami Lyric Opera, and the Caruso International Competition. Other accomplishments include working as the back stage conductor and prompter for numerous Palm Beach Opera’s main stage performances. In addition to her professional stage performances and as an accomplished pianist, Ms. Morimoto has worked with the Masterworks Chorus of the Palm Beaches, numerous South Florida high school choirs, fine arts students, and performed with many south Florida churches. She has highlighted numerous church concerts with her Oratoria Aria and Sacred Song repertoire including Brahms’ German Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Dubois's Seven Last Words of Christ, and Bach's Christ lag in Todesbanden, Cantata No.4. On the lighter side, Ms. Morimoto travels and performs with many talented local musicians for “Opera Night & More” Entertainment Concerts at charity events, private parties, country clubs and restaurants in South Florida. In more recent years renowned soprano, Maestra Virginia Zeani, another one of her teachers, called upon Ms. Morimoto to work with some of her students. With Maestra Zeani’s encouragement, in 2014 Ms. Morimoto opened her own music studio in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ms, Morimoto is a member of various music organizations such as MTNA, FSMTA, and PBCMTA. |
Soprano, Nana Morimoto |
Pianist, Nana Morimoto |
Accompanist, Nana Morimoto |
OPERA REPERTOIRE (Accompany & Coach) ______________________________________________________________________
PUCCINI
La Bohème
Manon Lescaut
Madame Butterfly
La Fanciulla del West
Tosca
Il Tabarro
VERDI
La Traviata
Otello
Luisa Miller
Rigoletto
Un Ballo in Maschera
Aida
Te Deum from Four Sacred Pieces
Nabucco
Requiem
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor
Don Pasquale
BELLINI
I Puritani
Norma
ROSSINI
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Cenerentola
MOZART
Don Giovanni
Papagheno
GIORDANO
Fedora
LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
PERGOLESI
La Serva Padrona
BIZET
Carmen
GOUNOD
Faust
Romeo and Juliet
WAGNER
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhauser
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel & Gretel
LEHAR
Merry Widow
FLOYD
Susannah
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Die Fledermaus
MENOTTI
The Telephone
Chip & His Dog
OTHER
SOUND OF MUSIC
SNOW WHITE
Worked Positions _____________________________________________
Rehearsal Pianist
Prompter
Performance Pianist
Singer
Music Director, Kanagawa Atsugi Children Chorus, Japan
Worked Conductors _________________________________________
Anton Guadagno
Julius Rudel
Bruno Aprea
Anton Coppola
Kamal Khan
Enrique Castro
Alberto Varonesi
Christopher Fecteau
Steven Guadagno
Seymour Schonberg
Ward Holmquist
Richard Buckley
Will Crutchfield
Akira Jingu
Takada Sakuzo
Worked Companies ________________________________________
Palm Beach Opera
South Florida Opera Company
Miami Lyric Opera
Altamura Summer Institute
Tokyo Arte Scenica Opera, Japan
Meiji University Chorus, Japan
Caruso International Voice Competition
SilkRoad Chorus Group, Japan
Masterworks Chorus in West Palm Beaches
ROLES PERFORMED _____________________________________________________________________
Elvira *
I Puritani
Vincenzo Bellini
Palm Beach Opera
Shepherd
Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
South Florida Opera Company
Queen of Hearts
Alice in Wonderland
Robert Chauls
Palm Beach Opera, Education Tour
Dormouse
Alice in Wonderland
Robert Chauls
Palm Beach Opera, Education Tour
Noble Page
Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Palm Beach Opera
Oscar *
Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Palm Beach Opera
Ernestina
L’equivoco stravagante
Gioacchino Rossini
Japan Opera Foundation
Dorabella
Cosi fun tutte
Amadeus Mozart
Showa School for Performing Arts
Bastienne
Bastien und Bastienne
Amadeus Mozart
Showa School for Performing Arts
Ciboulette
Mesdames de la Halle
Jacques Offenbach
Showa School for Performing Arts
* Cover
ORATORIOS & SOLO RECITALS_____________________________________________________________
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, St Luke Catholic Church, Palm Springs, 2021
Brahms German Requiem, Masterworks Chorus of Palm Beach, 2016
"Seele, deine Spezereien" Easter Oratorio, The Olive Avenue Chamber Ensemble Concert, 2016
Recital, Sacred songs & Operatic arias, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2010
Voice for Haiti: A Benefit ConcertCoral, Gables Congregational Church, 2010
Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden, Cantata No.4, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2008
Vivaldi Gloria, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2007
Theodore Dubois, Seven Last Words of Christ, Lake Osborne Presbyterian Church, Lake Worth, 2003
Piano Solo Recital
Tokyo, Japan
1991-1994
Piano Solo Recital
Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff
Sendai, Japan
1990
Piano & Soprano Solo
Recital
Kobe, Japan
1987
Performed Oratorio Aria & Sacred Songs:
Bach -
"Seele, deine Spezereien" from Easter Oratorio
"Ich folge dir gleichfalls", “I follow thee Jesus” from St. John Passion
"For love my Saviour from St. John Passion
Handel -
"Let the Bright Seraphim" from Samson
Mozart -
"Exultate jubilate" KV 165
"Laudamus te" from Great Mass in C minor
"Et incarnatus est" from Great Mass in C minor
"Laudate dominum" from Vesperae solennes de confessore
Mendelssohn -
"The King Of Love My Shepard Is"
"Hear Ye, Israel" from Elijah
Schubert -
"Ave Maria"
Gounod -
"Ave Maria"
"O divine redeemer"
“I waited for the Lord” (Duet)
Pergolesi -
Stabat Mater
Saint-Saens -
Ave Maria (duet)
Panis Angelicus
O Holly Night
The Lord's Prayer
PUCCINI
La Bohème
Manon Lescaut
Madame Butterfly
La Fanciulla del West
Tosca
Il Tabarro
VERDI
La Traviata
Otello
Luisa Miller
Rigoletto
Un Ballo in Maschera
Aida
Te Deum from Four Sacred Pieces
Nabucco
Requiem
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor
Don Pasquale
BELLINI
I Puritani
Norma
ROSSINI
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Cenerentola
MOZART
Don Giovanni
Papagheno
GIORDANO
Fedora
LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
PERGOLESI
La Serva Padrona
BIZET
Carmen
GOUNOD
Faust
Romeo and Juliet
WAGNER
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhauser
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel & Gretel
LEHAR
Merry Widow
FLOYD
Susannah
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Die Fledermaus
MENOTTI
The Telephone
Chip & His Dog
OTHER
SOUND OF MUSIC
SNOW WHITE
Worked Positions _____________________________________________
Rehearsal Pianist
Prompter
Performance Pianist
Singer
Music Director, Kanagawa Atsugi Children Chorus, Japan
Worked Conductors _________________________________________
Anton Guadagno
Julius Rudel
Bruno Aprea
Anton Coppola
Kamal Khan
Enrique Castro
Alberto Varonesi
Christopher Fecteau
Steven Guadagno
Seymour Schonberg
Ward Holmquist
Richard Buckley
Will Crutchfield
Akira Jingu
Takada Sakuzo
Worked Companies ________________________________________
Palm Beach Opera
South Florida Opera Company
Miami Lyric Opera
Altamura Summer Institute
Tokyo Arte Scenica Opera, Japan
Meiji University Chorus, Japan
Caruso International Voice Competition
SilkRoad Chorus Group, Japan
Masterworks Chorus in West Palm Beaches
ROLES PERFORMED _____________________________________________________________________
Elvira *
I Puritani
Vincenzo Bellini
Palm Beach Opera
Shepherd
Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
South Florida Opera Company
Queen of Hearts
Alice in Wonderland
Robert Chauls
Palm Beach Opera, Education Tour
Dormouse
Alice in Wonderland
Robert Chauls
Palm Beach Opera, Education Tour
Noble Page
Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Palm Beach Opera
Oscar *
Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Palm Beach Opera
Ernestina
L’equivoco stravagante
Gioacchino Rossini
Japan Opera Foundation
Dorabella
Cosi fun tutte
Amadeus Mozart
Showa School for Performing Arts
Bastienne
Bastien und Bastienne
Amadeus Mozart
Showa School for Performing Arts
Ciboulette
Mesdames de la Halle
Jacques Offenbach
Showa School for Performing Arts
* Cover
ORATORIOS & SOLO RECITALS_____________________________________________________________
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, St Luke Catholic Church, Palm Springs, 2021
Brahms German Requiem, Masterworks Chorus of Palm Beach, 2016
"Seele, deine Spezereien" Easter Oratorio, The Olive Avenue Chamber Ensemble Concert, 2016
Recital, Sacred songs & Operatic arias, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2010
Voice for Haiti: A Benefit ConcertCoral, Gables Congregational Church, 2010
Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden, Cantata No.4, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2008
Vivaldi Gloria, First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, 2007
Theodore Dubois, Seven Last Words of Christ, Lake Osborne Presbyterian Church, Lake Worth, 2003
Piano Solo Recital
Tokyo, Japan
1991-1994
Piano Solo Recital
Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff
Sendai, Japan
1990
Piano & Soprano Solo
Recital
Kobe, Japan
1987
Performed Oratorio Aria & Sacred Songs:
Bach -
"Seele, deine Spezereien" from Easter Oratorio
"Ich folge dir gleichfalls", “I follow thee Jesus” from St. John Passion
"For love my Saviour from St. John Passion
Handel -
"Let the Bright Seraphim" from Samson
Mozart -
"Exultate jubilate" KV 165
"Laudamus te" from Great Mass in C minor
"Et incarnatus est" from Great Mass in C minor
"Laudate dominum" from Vesperae solennes de confessore
Mendelssohn -
"The King Of Love My Shepard Is"
"Hear Ye, Israel" from Elijah
Schubert -
"Ave Maria"
Gounod -
"Ave Maria"
"O divine redeemer"
“I waited for the Lord” (Duet)
Pergolesi -
Stabat Mater
Saint-Saens -
Ave Maria (duet)
Panis Angelicus
O Holly Night
The Lord's Prayer