His repertoire ranges from baroque to modern and from oratorio to opera. His opera roles include Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten, Apollo in Death in Venice by Britten, Pastore and Speranza in L’Orfeo by Monteverdi, several roles by Handel, Apollo and Zephyrus in Apollo et Hyacinthus by Mozart and also the alto parts in The Fairy Queen and King Arthur by Purcell.

Tasuku ISHIZUKA, countertenor, was born in Japan. He studied voice and piano at the College of Music in Japan before continuing his voice studies at the conservatory in Vienna and the Royal Conservatory Den Haag in The Netherlands. His teachers were Olivera Miljakovic, Olga Warla-Kolo, Kurt Widmer and Max van Egmond.

He attended the master classes for singing, piano and Lied-interpretation of Dalton Baldwin and Lorraine Nubar and of Marius van Altena and Bart van Oort in The Netherlands.

Tasuku ISHIZUKA regularly performs in concerts and church concerts in Austria, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany and the USA. He was heard as the solo-alto in Handel’s Messiah under conductor Nicolas McGegan at the Pacific Music Festival  and in various roles in Handel’s operas in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Tokyo, Groningen, at the Concertgebouw in Nijmegen, at the Theater De Flint in Amersfoort, at the Theater Odeon in Zwolle, at the Beethovenhaus and Gesellschaft fur Musiktheater in Vienna, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.