The “impressive” (New York Times) and “rich, glowing” (New York Arts) Japanese American mezzo-soprano Sahoko Sato Timpone made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, narrated by Christopher Plummer, and has since appeared in opera and concerts throughout North America, Asia, and Europe.

Ms. Timpone’s future and recent engagements include returning to Carnegie Hall as an alto soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Masterwork Chorus, Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer with Opera Maine, Mahler’s Second, Third Symphonies, and Rückert Lieder with the Tallahassee Symphony and Florida State University Symphony, Tryptique for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Raymond Moulaert with the Terra Nova Collective in Belgium and a New York City recital sponsored by Joy In Singing. She has also performed Verdi’s Requiem with Music Worcester, Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, and Battenkill Chorale; Mozart’s Requiem with the Tallahassee Community Chorus; and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Marthe in Faust with St. Petersburg Opera. Her first solo CD Songs of Japonisme – Early 20th Century Art Song from Japan and the West with pianist Kenneth Merrill was released from London-based Sheva Collection and is available through Naxos.

Notable highlights of previous seasons include appearances under the baton of Seiji Ozawa in Elektra with Tokyo Spring Festival (former Tokyo Opera Nomori), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Saito Kinen Festival, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Rosina (cover) in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Seiji Ozawa Opera Academy. She has also performed Suzuki with Syracuse Opera, Nevada Opera, New Rochelle Opera, and Opera Camerata of Washington, Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. In 2016 and 2017, she made her Off-Broadway debut to critical acclaim as Ms. Sun-Yi Nam in ¡Figaro 90210! (Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro). On the concert stage, her past performances include Verdi’s Requiem with the New York Choral Society, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and United Nations with New York Symphonic Ensemble and Canadian Symphony Orchestra of NYC, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and Alexander Nevsky with Queensboro Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with Singapore Symphony, and solo engagements with Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, and Sapporo Symphony.

She is also an advocate for new music and art songs. She frequently performs in recitals nationally and internationally with appearances at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Steinway Hall, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, NATS Art Song Composition Award Recital, Art Song Preservation Society of New York, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY, American Musicological Society, Lunigiana International Music Festival and Sicily International Voice Festival in Italy, Alion Baltic International Music Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, Tokyo International Vocal Academy, and Ecuador’s Fundacion Cultural Armonia. Her solo recital credits include Bangkok, Thailand, sponsored by the Nomura Cultural Foundation, and Granada, Spain, as the First Miguel Zanetti International Spanish Song Competition winner. She is also featured in David Soldier’s new opera Eighth Hour of Amduat (Mulatta Records) as Mistress of the Boat, and in a jazz arrangement of Time to Say Goodbye in jazz trumpeter James Zollar’s CD, Zollar Systems (JZAZ Records).

A native of Tokyo who grew up in Germany and the United States, Ms. Timpone currently resides in Cincinnati and New York. Additionally, she is a licensed kimono dresser and has studied Japanese tea ceremony (Urasenke School) and Japanese kabuki-style dance (Sōke Fujima School).