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Kyoko Murai
photo: Ted Copper
Kyoko Murai, Soprano, was born in Tokyo and began her training at the Musashino Music Academy in Japan.
At Trinity College of Music in London, Kyoko studied with Linda Hirst and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Early Music, studying with Timothy Brown. At Trinity, Kyoko won both the Roy Pleasance Singing Competition and the Paul Simm Opera Prize.
Kyoko went on to do further postgraduate study in early music at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama with Margaret Humphrey-Clark. She has taken part in masterclasses given by Meribeth Dayme, Michael Chance, Derek Lee Ragin and Emma Kirkby.
Recent solo performances include Handel's Dixit Dominus, Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Mozart's Vesperae solennes di Dominica. Operatic roles include Amor in Monteverdi's L'incoronatione di Poppea and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Angelo custode in Cavarieli's Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo, priestess and Maenad in Rameau's Anacreon and Cupid in Purcell's King Arthur.
Kyoko has been a regular tutor at the Dartington International Summer School and this season will be touring the USA, France and the UK, with English Voices.
