Sahoko Sato Timpone (Japan/USA)
Mezzo-Soprano
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Mezzo-soprano Sahoko Sato Timpone made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s
Dream with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and narrated by
Christopher Plummer, and has since appeared in opera and concerts throughout North America, Asia and
Europe.
2017/2018 season includes her debut with St. Petersburg Opera as Marthe in Faust, as Alto Soloist in Verdi’s
Messa di Requiem with Battenkill Chorale and a recital tour in Europe. She returned to the Opera Camerata of
Washington as Zita in Gianni Schicchi during the 2016/2017 season and performed in a chamber music recital
titled ‘Songs of the Jewish Enlightenment’ at the American Musicological Society Conference in Vancouver.
She also appeared as soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Queensboro Symphony Orchestra, the
New York premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s new opera, Prince of Players with the Little Opera Theatre of New
York, Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel at the New York City Bar Association and as soloist in Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony with the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of New York City.
During the 2015/2016 season, she made her Off-Broadway debut to critical acclaim as Ms. Sun-Yi Nam
in ¡Figaro 90210! (Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro) and as Mercédès in Carmen with PORTOpera. Her
concert appearances included collaboration with pianist Thomas Grubb for the Art Song Preservation Society
of New York.
Her previous engagements in the United States included Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Syracuse Opera,
Nevada Opera Theater, New Rochelle Opera and Opera Camerata of Washington, Cherubino in Le nozze di
Figaro with Syracuse Opera and West Virginia Symphony, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with Baltimore Opera,
Miss Todd in The old maid and the thief with Berkshire Opera, Pitti-Sing in Mikado, Maddalena
in Rigoletto and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Chautauqua Opera and Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia at
Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. As a concert soloist, she appeared with Seattle Symphony, Oregon
Symphony and Chautauqua Symphony, sang in Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with the New York Choral Society
and with the New York Symphonic Ensemble she has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the
United Nations and Carnegie Hall.
She has often been invited to her native Japan to perform under Seiji Ozawa. She made her debut with Tokyo
Opera Nomori in Elektra, performed Cherubino at the Saito Kinen Festival, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus with
the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku Opera and participated in their China – Japan tour. Other appearances in Japan
included guest soloist with Sapporo Symphony and as Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos with Der Verein
Japanisch-Deutscher Musikfreunde at the New National Theater in Tokyo. Additionally, Sahoko performed
with the Singapore Symphony in Handel’s Messiah and the world premiere of The Other Wise Man by
Stefania De Kennessey. She returned to Southeast Asia in 2004 and 2006 to teach masterclasses and to
perform solo recitals and Baba in The Medium in Bangkok, Thailand.
She is also an active recitalist, with recent appearances at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Steinway Hall
and the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY. As the winner of First Miguel Zanetti
International Spanish Song Competition in 2008, she presented a solo recital of Andalusian music in Granada,
Spain.
A native of Tokyo who grew up in Germany and the United States, Sahoko is a graduate of Manhattan School
of Music and the New England Conservatory. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance
from Rutgers University where she received Irene Alm Memorial Prize. She is also the recipient of the Nomura
Cultural Foundation Grant, the Mary Wolfman Award at the NATS Competition in Boston and the Studio
Artist Award from Chautauqua Opera. She will serve as the Assistant Professor of Voice at Florida State
University starting in August, 2017.
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