Akira Tachikawa

Akira Tachikawa (Japanese: 太刀川昭, Tachikawa Akira, 1961ｰ) is a Japanese countertenor, described as "one of a very few accomplished Japanese counter-tenors". A 1980 graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, in which he studied under Kounosuke Watanabe and Ryousuke Hatanaka, he has since obtained work as a singer, particularly in Baroque music in Europe, where he moved in 1986. He has performed with the Bach Collegium Japan under their conductor Masaaki Suzuki.