Akira Tachikawa

Akira Tachikawa (Japanese: 太刀川 昭, Tachikawa Akira, 1961ー) is a Japanese countertenor, described as "one of a very few accomplished Japanese counter-tenors". A 1980 graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, in which he studied under Kounosuke Watanabe and Ryousuke Hatanaka, he has since obtained work as a singer, particularly in Baroque music in Europe, where he moved in 1986. He has performed with the Bach Collegium Japan under their conductor Masaaki Suzuki.

The Uncertainty Principle - 2012-01-07T00:00:00.000000Z

De Machaut: Sacred and Secular Music - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Machaut: Le jugement du roi de Navarre - 2001-12-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Kuhnau / Zelenka / Bach: Magnificat - 1999-12-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 4 - Bwv 163, 165, 185, 199 - 1996-12-31T00:00:00.000000Z

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