ACCOMPANIMENT
Mutsumi Moteki, coach and
collaborative pianist. Since her college
years in Tokyo, Japan, Mutsumi Moteki has been active as a vocal
coach/accompanist. She received extensive training in this area
from Westminster Choir College (under Glenn Parker and Dalton
Baldwin) and University of Michigan (under Martin Katz) as well as
prestigious summer programs such as Music Academy of the West,
Steans Institute for Young Artists, Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden
bei Wien, and Conservatoire de musique in Genève. She is currently
an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
where she teaches singing diction, vocal repertoire, and vocal
accompanying, and is the head of musical staff of CU Opera. She
performs regularly with singers such as Patti Peterson, Patrick
Mason, Nozomi Yoshizawa, and Irene Friedlob, and has appeared in
recitals in Austria, Switzerland, Japan, and Germany as well as in
the U.S.A. She is also the music director of Colorado Opera Troupe
in Denver. In the spring of 2000 she taught 5 weeks at Hochschule
für Musik “Hans Eisler” in Berlin, Germany, as an exchange
professor. She also taught at Kobe College in Japan for a year as
the Bryant Drake Guest Professor during the academic year 2002-2003.