ToshuFukami::Artistic Activities Web

Toshu Fukmai studied voice under Yoshinobu Kuribayashi,Director of the Nikikai Opera Association. He completed his graduate studies in voice at the Musashino Academia Musicae in 1997. He currently studies conducting under Kiyomasa Nagase and music theology with Tomiko Kojiba. His debut as an opera singer was in March 1997, when he took the role of Yasuyori in opera production "Shunkan". Since then, he has sang at many recitals domestically, and abroad; including at the Casals Hall and the Tokyo Metropolitan Opera City Concert Hall.

His overseas recitals include performances at the Albert Hall in November 1994, "All the World's a Stage" at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1996, a New Year's Concert in London in 1997, Summer Concert in London in 1998 and Arts on the Edge Concert in Australia in 1998.

Performed with Maya Plisetskaya in the original ballet Amenokawa no Ukehi in 1993 and in the August 1998 performance of the original Noh ballet Hagoromo.

Other performances include:
December 1992 performance of the opera ballet Yamato wa Kuni no Mahoroba,
December 1993 performance of the opera ballet Amenokawa no ukehi,
March 1994 performance of the original ballet Raiten,
July 4, 1994 performance of the French Cancan,
June 1996 performance of the original Takigi ballet Hamabe ni tsudou youseitachi,
March 1997 performance of the original Takigi ballet Reimei,
June 1997 performance of the original Takigi ballet Kengen,
April 1999 performance of the original ballet Nihon Sosei,
May 1999 performance of the original ballet Nihon Sosei,
August 2000 performance of the Noh ballet Hagoromo,
August 31 2000 performance of the Noh ballet Hagoromo
(right) Maya Plisetskaya
July 16, 2000 Peking Opera Kojyo no saikai
(left) Wang Jin Lu

March 1998 performance of Kurama Tengu marked for the first time Fukami performing two roles in one performance: he played both the Meiji Emperor and Kurama Tengu.

Fukami studied Peking Opera under Wang Jin Lu at the Chinese School of Theatrical Music
Performances include his October 1999 performance of Saiyuki, and his November 1999 performance of Hong qiao zeng zhu, the July 2000 performance of Kojyo no saikai, the March 2002 performance of Kanjiko, and others.
Fukami also performed in the "Sydney Peking Opera Performance" that took place at the Sydney Opera House in February 2003.
In China, Fukami is ranked as a Grade 2 National Peking Opera Actor (December 2002).
He is a regular member of the Chinese National Opera Company, a regular member of the Chinese Beijing Peking Opera Troupe, a visiting member of the Chinese Heilongjiang Peking Opera Troupe, Director of the Mei Lanfang Foundation, and Chairman of the Chinese Heilongjiang Peking Opera Troupe Promotional Association.

The history of "stage" activities is seen.

His first Noh stage performance was in the play "Tsurukame" in 1972.
In 1996, he performed his first major role in a Noh play, "Shojo,"
followed by eRan' in 2000
and "Shakkyo (Renjishi)" in 2001
and "okina" in 2002.

Toshu Fukami has contributed greatly to the dissemination of Noh both in Japan and overseas. He has conducted Noh performance tours in the United Kingdom, China, and in NYC, at places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United Nations. Last year, he organized an unprecedented Noh programme in Egypt staged in front of the Sphinx, in which he performed as a Noh lead for the 26th time. He is a teacher of Noh at the Hosho School , and leads the Toshu Hoshokai Noh troupe.

The history of "noh" activities is seen.

In 2000, Fukami�fs released his first collection of poetry, Kagerou, and in 2002 he released The Wind Blows Green, a collection of photography and verse. Fukami is president of the Toshu Poetry Society.