Michiko Takahashi

Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the University of the Arts in Tokyo and participates with an a capella group L'Ensemble Planeta, gives many concerts in Japan and Asia and records several discs. She came to France in 2009 and studied early music with Howard Crook at the CRR in Paris. At the opera, she performed the Complaint in The Fairy Queen by Purcell, Zima in Les Indes Galantes by Rameau, La Folie in Platée by Rameau, Argie in Les Paladins by Rameau, The Duchess in Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse de Boismortier, Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Musica in Monteverdi's Orfeo. She performs as a soloist in oratorios or sacred music such as Requiem by Fauré, Mozart, Die Schöpfung by J. Haydn, Missa Beatissimae Virginis Mariae by M. Haydn, the Passions and several cantatas by JS Bach