Yoko-Maria Tsukuda

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Yoko-Maria Tsukuda (佃 揺子・マリア Tsukuda Yōko Maria?, 1976 –) is a Japanese soprano. She is known in Japan for her wide repertoire of Finnish Lieder, and is among the first artists to introduce Finnish vocal Music to Japan. She also performs Russian romances, German Lieder, French and Italian art songs, operatic arias, as well as Japanese songs.

She studied at the Tokyo College of Music and it's graduate school, and graduated the performer course as top of her class in 2002. She has won several prizes in national and international vocal contests. She continued vocal studies for several years in Finland with Jorma Hynninen, and nowadays mainly performs in Tokyo.

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