Keiko Morikawa

Keiko Morikawa, a Japanese soprano who works chiefly in Italy, performs contemporary, chamber and sacred music as well as opera. She has performed music for voice and electronics, including works by Piero Mottola. At the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome she was a soloist in Piero Mottola's Voices of Lives in 2022. She sang Boccherini's Stabat Mater at the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in 2011. She took her singing diploma at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1995. Her symphonic work has included Mendelssohn's Zum Fest der heiligen Caecilia for Radio Vaticana and Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust under Jeffrey Tate for RAI Turin. From 2001 she has worked with the Freon Ensemble under Stefano Cardi, singing Boulez's Le marteau sans maitre at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and Hymnen by Carla Magnan and Carla Rebora for RAI Radio3; in 2005 she appeared at the Giacinto Scelsi Festival of the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Scelsi's Litanie for two female voices, with Valentina Pesciallo, and in Lilitu for solo voice. She performs in the Trio Inarmonico with harpist Nazarena Recchia and guitarist Francesco Cuoghi.