Jun SHIRAIWASinger / Voice Trainer

Jun Shiraiwa is a baritone singer of opera and classical music. He is currently a lecturer at the Yamaguchi University, member of Tokyo Nikikai, member of Japanisch-Deutsche Liedergesellschaft, and member of Koseikai.

Shiraiwa graduated from the Department of Vocal Music, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed Master's degree in Music Education at the same school.

He learned vocal music under Hiroshi Oshima, Joji Ko, Akiya Fukushima, late Junji Nagamachi, and Teruhiko Komori.

Shiraiwa joined the Bach Cantata Club while at the university where he further received the tutelage of Michio Kobayashi on Baroque music.

In 2011 and 2012, he attended "Giuseppe Sabbatini Open Master Class for Singers" as part of the Suntory Hall Opera Academy.

In 2015, Shiraiwa attended master classes given by Dietrich Henschel, Helmut Deutsch and others in Stuttgart, Germany.

In opera, he has a reputation for elaborating and perfecting his role as he has played leading bass and baritone roles such as Figaro in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," Leporello in 'Don Giovanni', Guglielmo in "Così fan tutte," Don Alfonso, and Papageno in 'Die Zauberflöte', as well as having performed in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Bize and other composers.

In the field of religious music, Shiraiwa has been featured as a soloist in Bach's church cantatas, "Matthäus-Passion," Handel's "Messiah," Haydn's "Harmonium Messe," Mozart's "Requiem," "Große Messe" and others.

He has been selected for a number of competitions including the 16th Japan Mozart Music Competition, the 26th Japan-German Song Competition in which he received the Audience Award, as well as the 35th Iizuka Rookie Music Competition.