CV / Résumé

Last updated November 2022. For more detailed information regarding Teiya’s cv / résumé, please contact them directly via the contact page.

 

Performance Credits

UPCOMING

  • TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR Verdi’s Requiem (Soprano Solo)

OPERA ROLES PERFORMED

(As a cover/understudyº)

  • ADAMS, J Nixon in China Madame Maoº

  • BEETHOVEN Fidelio Marzellineº

  • BERNSTEIN West Side Story Estella

  • BIZET Carmen Frasquita

  • BRITTEN A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tytania

  • CORIGLIANO The Ghosts of Versailles Florestineº

  • DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor Luciaº; Maria Stuarda Mariaº

  • DVORAK Rusalka First Wood Sprite

  • GAZZANIGA Don Giovanni Maturina

  • GILBERT & SULLIVAN The Gondoliers Gianetta; H.M.S. Pinafore Josephineº

  • HAHN L'île du rêve Mahénu

  • HÄNDEL Serse Romilda

  • MENOTTI The Telephone Lucy

  • MOZART

    • Così fan tutte Despina

    • Don Giovanni Donna Elvira, Zerlinaº

    • Le nozze di Figaro Barbarina, Cherubino, Countessº, Susanna

    • Die Zauberflöte Erster Knabe, Königin der Nacht, Paminaº

  • OFFENBACH

    • Ba-ta-clan Fé-an-nich-ton

    • Les contes d’Hoffmann Olympia

  • PERGOLESI La serva padrona Serpina

  • PROKOFIEV

    • L’amour des trois oranges Fata Morgana

    • War and Peace Dunyashaº

  • PUCCINI

    • La bohème Musetta

    • Madama Butterfly Cio-Cio San

  • ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia Berta, Rosina

  • STRAUSS

    • Ariadne auf Naxos Echo, Zerbinetta

    • Salome Salomeº

  • STRAVINSKY The Nightingale Nightingaleº

  • VERDI Macbeth Lady Macbeth

NEW OPERA ROLES PERFORMED

  • Dead Equal Flora Sandes (words by Lila Palmer; music by Rose Hall)

  • Deconstruction Reconstruction: a hip hopera Anna (words and music by DJ Lil Jazz, T.R.A.C.K.S., Teiya Kasahara, Liz Upchurch, and Justin Welsh)

  • Naomi’s Road Naomi (words by Ann Hodges; music by Ramona Luengen)

  • Pomegranate Bartender, Mother, Priestess (words by Amanda Hale; music by Kye Marshall)

  • Shelter Hope (words by Julie Slaverson; music by Juliet Palmer)

  • When the Sun Comes Out Solana (words by Rachel Rose; music by Leslie Uyeda)

CONCERT, CHAMBER, ORATORIO PERFORMED

  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9 (Soprano Solo)

  • HÄNDEL Messiah / Electric Messiah (Soprano & Alto Solos)

  • ORFF Carmina Burana (Soprano Solo)

THEATRE ROLES PERFORMED

  • AMPLIFIED OPERA/CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY/NIGHTWOOD THEATRE/THEATRE GARGANTUA: The Queen In Me (The Queen of the Night) by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野

  • THEATRE GARGANTUA: The Wager (Ensemble) by Michael Gordon Spence

  • BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE RESIDENCY: Undecided* (Tara) by Queer AF Collective

  • THEATRE GARGANTUA: Raging Dreams: into the visceral by Jacquie PA Thomas and Meryn Cadell

 

Recording Credits

2023

2018

2013

2004

 

Video Credits

2022

2021

2020

2017

  • Opera Singer Five Octave Range - Video Installation by Paul Wong for the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival

  • Kathy Hurry Up and Wait - Web Series Trailer by Tricia Hagoriles and Monica Garrido

2014

 

Education

PROFESSIONAL DEGREE

  • University of British Columbia Bachelor of Music in Opera Performance — Vancouver, Canada (2003-2007)

    • Catherine Cooke Topping Memorial Award - Highest Academic Standing of Graduating Class in Music

    • Multiple Scholarships Winner, incl. Wesbrook Scholar

    • President of the Music Undergraduate Society (2006-2007)

PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS / INTERNSHIPS

  • Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Artist (2007-2010)

  • Nightwood Theatre Artistic Director Intern / Artist-in-Residence (2020-2021)

  • Theatre Gargantua Artistic Intern (2016)

ANTI-OPPRESSION, ANTI-RACISM WORKSHOPS

  • Art Equity

    • BIPOC Leadership Circle (2020)

    • BIPOC Surviving PWI (2020)

  • H.U.G. Healing (Un)learning Growing (2020)

  • Re-Imagining A New World: Building Practices of Awareness, Activism and Anti-Racism as a Taiko Community (2020)

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Generator - Artist Producer Training — Toronto, ON (2019-2020)

  • Reiki — Usui Method Level 1 & 2, certified by Susan McDonald, Reiki Master (2014, 2015)

Festivals, Intensives, Programs & professional Workshops

  • Aspen Music Festival and School – Aspen Opera Theater Center (2010, 2011)

  • Buddies in Bad Times Theatre: Emerging Creators Unit — Toronto, ON (2016-2017)

  • Buddies in Bad Times Theatre: Rhubarb Festival — Toronto, ON (2017)

  • Centre for Opera Studies in Italy: Opera Studio (2008)

  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2019)

  • Highlands Opera Studio — Haliburton, ON (2012)

  • International Vocal Arts Institute — Montreal, QC (2009)

  • Metcalf Foundation: Staging Change for Tapestry Opera, Nightwood Theatre (2019, 2020)

  • Operavision Academy L’accademia Millo-Vetere — Italy (Urbania 2015; Busetto 2016)

  • Pride Toronto Festival (World Pride TO 2014, Dyke March 2018)

  • Queer Arts Festival — Vancouver, BC (2012, 2013, 2019)

  • Quote Unquote Collective: Devised Creation Workshop (2017)

  • Tapestry Opera: LibLab (singer) — Toronto, ON (2018)

  • Theatre Gargantua: Dynamic Creation Masterclass (2016)

  • Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival (2008)

  • Universität Mozarteum Salzburg: Meisterkurse mit Edith Mathis — Salzburg, Austria (2006)

  • UBC Summer Opera Program: Czech Republic (2005, 2006, 2007)

  • UBC Summer Music Institute (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)

  • Vancouver International Song Institute – Professional Performance Studies (2007)

  • Vancouver Opera: Young Artist Coaching Intensive with Carol Isaac (2009)

  • Wiener Meisterkurse: Bernarda Fink — Vienna, Austria (2006)

 

Vocal Training

  • Languages Spoken: English (fluent), French (basic), German (advanced), Italian (conversational), Japanese (conversational)

  • Languages Sung: Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Wolastoqey

  • Language Schools: Goethe Institute (2012-2013); Aitas Japanese Language School (2016-2019)

TEAchers & Coaches

  • Current Voice Teacher: Dr. Maria Vetere

  • Current Coach: David Eliakis

  • Past Teachers: Vinson Cole, Irene Gubrud, Nancy Hermiston, Elizabeth Hynes, Melanie Krueger, Mary Morrison, Wendy Nielsen, Tim Noble, J. Patrick Raftery

  • Past Coaches: Rachel Andrist, Elizabeth Buccheri, Kate Carver, Brian DeMaris, Richard Epp, Miah Im, Carol Isaac, Albert Krywolt, Joseph Li, Kenneth Merrill, Gerald Martin Moore, Steven Philcox, Rena Sharon, Margaret Singer, Kinza Tyrell, Liz Upchurch

Masterclasses (by invitation):

Elly Ameling, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sir Richard Bonynge, Nico Castel, Tracy Dahl, Michelle DeYoung, Joan Dornemann, Darryl Edwards, Matthew Epstein, Bernarda Fink, John Fisher, Judith Forst, Margo Garrett, Paolo Gavanelli, Irene Gubrud, Ben Heppner, Martin Isepp, Rudolf Jansen, Siegfried Jerusalem, Michael McMahon, Catherine Malfitano, Edith Mathis, Aprile Millo, Gerald Martin Moore, Tim Noble, Adrienne Pieczonka, Rena Sharon, Diana Soviero, Carol Vaness, Marc Verzatt, Claude Webster

 

Competitions

2012

  • 1st Place Voice Category 26 Years and Under — Canadian Music Competition

2011

  • Winner — Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Vancouver District)

  • Bedřich Smetana Prize / 4th Place — XI Czech-Slovak International Singing Competition (Montréal)

2010

  • Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Laureate — Théâtre Lyrichoregra 20

  • Semi-finalist — Julián Gayarre International Singing Contest (Pamplona, Spain)

2009

  • Semi-finalist (Opera & Operetta) — International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (Vienna)

2007

  • 2nd Place — Vancouver Women’s Musical Society Bursary Competition

  • 1st Runner-Up, Encouragement Award — Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (North West Region)

2006

  • Winner — Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Vancouver District)

 

Awards, Grants, Prizes & Scholarships

2023

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Research & Development) Grant for KABUKI GET!, a collaboration with Noriko Kim Kobayashi

2022

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Research & Development) Grant for IRNGUTAQ (Amplified Opera)

  • Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Music

  • Ontario Arts Council: Theatre Project Grant for LITTLE MIS(S)GENDER (Queer AF Collective)

  • Toronto Arts Council: Theatre Project Grant for LITTLE MIS(S)GENDER (Queer AF Collective)

2021

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Research & Development) Grant for RIVER ISLAND

  • Toronto Arts Council: Playwright’s grant for YORU, or WHEN THE NIGHT BECOMES ONE SOUND

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Concept to Realization) for AMPLIFY 1.0 Concert Series (Amplified Opera)

  • Ontario Arts Council: Music Project Grant for AMPLIFY 1.0 Concert Series (Amplified Opera)

  • Toronto Arts Council: Music Project Grant for AMPLIFY 1.0 Concert Series (Amplified Opera)

2020

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Concept to Realization) Grant for THE QUEEN IN ME (Amplified Opera)

  • Ontario Arts Council: Theatre Presentation Grant for THE QUEEN IN ME (Amplified Opera)

  • Toronto Arts Council: Theatre Project Grant for THE QUEEN IN ME (Amplified Opera)

2019

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Supporting Artistic Development for Internship in Artistic Direction with Nightwood Theatre

  • Toronto Arts Council: Music Project Grant for YORU

  • Toronto Arts Council: Music Project Grant for AMPLIFY Concert Series (Amplified Opera)

  • Ontario Arts Council: Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Music Travel Grant

2018

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Research & Development) Grant for UNDECIDED (Queer AF Collective)

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Concept to Realization) Grant for THE QUEEN IN ME — THE QUEER OF THE NIGHT

  • Toronto Arts Council: Theatre Project in a Festival for THE QUEEN IN ME (Amplified Opera)

  • Ontario Arts Council: Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators

  • Teresa Stratas Scholarship - Ten Singing Stars, International Resource Centre for the Performing Arts

2017

  • Ontario Arts Council: Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators

2016

  • Scholarship - Operavision Academy L’accademia Millo-Vetere

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Professional Musicians

2015

  • Joan Sutherland Memorial Scholarship - Operavision Academy L’accademia Millo-Vetere

2012

  • Scholarship/Award: In Memory of Alice Rathé - Canadian Music Competition

2011

  • Opera Fellowship - Aspen Music Festival and School

2010

  • Joe Boxer Memorial Fund Award - Vancouver Opera Foundation

  • Travel Grant for Professional Musicians - Canada Council for the Arts

2009

  • Partial Tuition Scholarship - International Vocal Arts Institute (Montréal)

  • Partial Career Grant - Vancouver Opera Guild

2008

  • Full Tuition Scholarship - Toronto Summer Music Festival and School

  • Partial Tuition Scholarship - Centre for Opera Studies in Italy - Sulmona

2007

  • Catherine Cooke Topping Memorial Medal for Highest Academic Achievement in Music - University of British Columbia

  • Ann Vaisbord Scholarship - Vancouver Women’s Musical Society

2006

  • Golden Leaf Scholarship in Music - University of British Columbia

  • Undergraduate Scholar - University of British Columbia

2005

  • Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Scholarship - Johann Strauss Foundation

  • Wesbrook Scholar - University of British Columbia

  • HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship - University of British Columbia

  • Undergraduate Scholar - University of British Columbia

  • Honoured Member - Golden Key International Honour Society

  • Ben Heppner Scholarship - University of British Columbia

2004

  • Ben Heppner Scholarship - University of British Columbia

  • John S. Chappell Memorial Scholarship - University of British Columbia

2003

  • Avenor Inc. Major Entrance Scholarship

  • Maurice Taylor Scholarship in Music - University of British Columbia

  • Norman Mackenzie Scholarship - University of British Columbia