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The Japanese soprano, Maine Takeda [Japanese: 竹田舞音], completed her bachelor's degree in singing and master's degree in opera at the Tokyo University of the Arts. At her bachelor's degree, she was awarded the Acanthus Prize, the MatsudaTOSHI Prize and the Douseikai Prize.
During her studies Maine Takeda made her debut as a concert singer. So far she has sung as a soloist the J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245, George Frideric Handel's The Messiah, J. Haydn's The Creation, the Requiems by W.A. Mozart and Gabriel Fauré, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 and John Rutter's Magnificat. In the opera sector she sang Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2015.
In 2018 Maine Takeda attended the Internationale Sächsische Sängerakademie and won the Sparkasse Leipzig sponsorship award. She has also been a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin e.V. Live Music Now since 2021. In the same year she won 1st Prize at the Rainer Koch-Gedächtnispreis for the best interpretation of a Wolfgang Rihm work. In November 2021 she was awarded 1st Prize at the Heinz-Kunle-Wettbewerb für Vokalensembles. Since October 2020, she has been studying to continue her master's degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in the class of Professor Hanno Müller-Brachmann. |
