For Misaki Morino, Vienna lives up to both its names: The City of Music and The City of Dreams. Her home since 2011, the Austrian capital is where she honed her voice under the tutelage of world-renowned fellow sopranos and realized her childhood ambition of becoming a professional singer.
Now an up-and-coming singer in baroque, classical and contemporary music as well as German lieder and operetta, the Okayama Prefecture native is flourishing in the respected European musical center.
Morino moves effortlessly between musical genres, languages and roles, despite her 28 years, which is drawing attention both at home and abroad. From Japan, she earned a Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship and an Emerging Artists Scholarship provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Residency Program.