Education
Graduated School of Media and Governance, Keio University
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Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1999, Haruka Kondo graduated from the Vocal Music Department of Musashino Academia Musicae. She completed her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Policy and Media Management, Keio University, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the latter institution. Since 2023, she has been a visiting researcher at Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York, supported by the Koizumi Foundation. She completed the International Music Performance Course (Vocal) at the same university. Additionally, she works as a researcher under the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Next Generation Researchers Program. Kondo is also the representative of the opera group Opera Lab Japan.
As a soprano singer, she has performed in operas and concerts while striving to introduce a scientific approach to vocal instruction at the Music Neuroscience Laboratory, focusing on scientific research on vocalization. In August 2023, she presented her research at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). She is scheduled to present at The Neuroscience and Music International Conference in Finland in June 2024.
Kondo began playing the piano at the age of 3 and started studying vocal music at 16. As a member of the NHK Tokyo Children Choir, she has appeared on television, radio, and in concerts. In 2023, she won third place in the adult division of the NATS-NYC Competition, sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, held at Columbia University in New York. In Japan, she has won awards such as the Gold Prize at the 24th Glenn Gould Piano Competition and the Special Prize at the 18th Japan Performer Competition. She was also selected as a finalist in the 1st Ibra Grand Awards. She furthered her studies at the Suntory Hall Opera Academy and received instruction from Miki Sahashi, Midori Minawa, and Andrew Wanninman.
Some of her notable performances include roles in “Regoletto” as the Countess, “The Marriage of Figaro” as Cherubino, and appearances in productions such as Aoshima Hiroshi’s Blue Island version of “Die Fledermaus,” operas “Amanjyaku to Princess Uriko,” “Madama Butterfly,” and “L’Incoronazione di Poppea”. In 2022, she performed acapella on the Fuji Television program “Hamonep League” as a member of the Keio University team “Ginmokusei”, achieving fourth place nationwide.
Project
- The Relationship between Singing Power Ratio and Subjective Performance Rating in Opera Singing
- Examination of Psychological and Physiological Indicators in Audience by Differences in Singing Method (UTA Lab)
Publications
International conference
- Kondo H., Kawahara S., & Fujii S. Association of Acoustic Features with Ranking in Classical Vocal Music Competitions. The Neurosciences and Music VIII, Helsinki, Finland, June 13-16,2024. (査読有)
- Kondo H., Kawahara S., & Fujii S. The Relationship between Singing Power Ratio and Subjective Performance Rating in Opera Singing. The Joint Conference of the 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC17-APSCOM7). Nihon University, Japan, August 24-28, 2023.
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