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EMIKO IINUMA (Founder/President/Producer/Artistic Director) Emiko Iinuma was born in Tokyo and is a graduate of Baylor University under a Presidential Scholarship and of the University of Southern California under the Hamilton Guild and Faculty Concert Fund Awards. She was accepted as a SPECIAL STUDENT at Juilliard School where she studied with Marion Freschl and subsequently with Claire Gelda, Eva Likova and Eleanor Steber, and Lucine Amara of Metropolitan Opera. Notable performances have included a debut recital and the opera "Linda de Chamounix" at Town Hall, two recitals at Alice Tully Hall, recitals at the Schubert Hall and Brahms Hall in Vienna, Austria, recitals at the Bunka Kaikan and Asahi Seimei Halls in Tokyo and a special appearance on the "Evening Recital Series" of the NHK Broadcasting Company in Tokyo. She has been a frequent guest on WQXR-FM's Radio Program "The Listening Room" hosted by Robert Sherman. She was a leading soloist at the Radio City Music Hall with orchestra for 8 consecutive weeks. In 1981, she founded the Harmonia Opera Company and has sung the title roles of Opera "Yuzuru" by Ikuma Dan, "Madame Butterfly" of Puccini, "Madame Chrysantheme" of Messager and "Gombo Gitsune" by Hirokazu Sugano, this last as a Benefit Fund-Raising American Premiere for Mother Hale's "The Cradle" at the Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York. In 1991 she brought the Harmonia Opera Company through its Tenth Anniversary Gala at Alice Tully Hall, singing the title role of Kitsune in "Kitsune to Kawauso" by Hirokazu Sugano, and selections from Mascagni's "Iris". The Manhattan School of Music has been the site of her subsequent American Premiere performances of "A Story of Three Women" (Bekku) and "Amanjaku and Princess Uriko" "Tojin Okichi" by famous composer Tohroku Takagi. From 1997 through 2004, she presented American Premiere of "Warrior's Red Jacket", the World Premiere of "Princess Kaguya", "Haibo", and World Premiere of “Kantan”. On November 17, 2005, she will present the American Premiere of “Nasu no Yoichi”, famous historical hero of Genji and Heike era. Presenting fully choreographed galas of mixed-Broadway material constitutes an additional direction now characteristic of her leadership of the Harmonia Opera Company Training School.
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