NAKAGAWA, Naoko is a graduate of the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts. Nakagawa's remarkable voice is well known in Japan and she has appeared in concerts throughout Japan as a soloist and a guest singer. American audiences have also received her warmly after coming to New York City in 2006.
Ms. Nakagawa started her vocal training at the age of fifteen. Her teachers include Noriko Fujiwara, Michio Tatara, Dora Ohrenstein, Jean-Ronald LaFond, Joan Krueger, Martina Arroyo, and Maestro Steven M. Crawford of Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Nakagawa made her role debut as Masha in A Feast in the Time of the Plague written by César Cui at the little OPERA THEATRE of NY in 2009 and appeared at The Hudson Guild Theatre in New York. Since then, she has appeared in many concerts in and around New York. Notably, she has appeared at the Benefit Concert for Japan in May 2011 hosted by Artists in Action for Japan as well as in June 2011 with the Concert for Japan hosted by the Consulate General of Germany and Consulate General of Japan in New York in June 2011 to raise funds for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

She has continued her artistic career by touring worldwide at various venues while building a foundation for the next generation of musicians through her work as a voice teacher.