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	Yoshikazu Mera (Counter-tenor) - Short Biography
		Mera is a winner of the highest prizes at the eight Early Music Competition Yamanashi in May 1994 and the sixth Tochigi Music Festival award.
		In October 1993 Yoshikazu Mera sang the solo part in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, and in March 1994 he sang the counter-tenor solo part in Bernstein’s Skylark under the baton of Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
		Mera appears frequently as a soloist for the Bach Collegium Japan.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Mera-Yoshikazu.htm (403 words)

	Yoshikazu Mera - Bach Cantatas - Recordings & General Discussions
		The drawback with Mera, and perhaps this is the reason why he did not continue in the Suzuki series, is that the volume in the lower range of his voice becomes almost non-existent.
		Mera has perhaps found no way to add more strength to this part of his range while, on the other hand non-Asian countertenors generally have trouble controlling the falsetto part of their voice range, thereby causing the unpleasantness that I associate with these voices.
		Mera somehow found a way to restrain and modify the 'piercing' quality that frequently appears, but he lost depth, and along with that, the ability for expression which is also needed in a Bach cantata aria.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Performers/Mera.htm (7612 words)

	Amazon.com: Nightingale: Japanese Art Songs: Music: Yoshikazu Mera,Gunilla von Bahr,Kikuko Ogura,Sadao Bekku,Ikuma ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Whilst Mera's voice is pure and sweet; soars and sweeps with the grace and elegance one has come to expect from this world-class artist, Kikuko OGURA on the piano has a lot to learn.
		Mera's voice of course is exemplary, and credit to BIS for including the full Japanese sung texts (in Japanese script), along with accurate English translations.
		Yoshikazu Mera, the counter-tenor from Japan, is, perhaps, the finest classical voice I have ever heard.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000016PT?v=glance (1496 words)

	Classical CD Reviews- June 1999 BAROQUE ARIAS Volume 2 Yoshikazu Mera : Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Mera's collaboration with Gerd Turk is also quite sublime, especially in the Magnificat a 7 by Ahle, an almost unknown composer who deserves wider currency on this evidence.
		The remainder of the disc is handed over to Johann Sebastian Bach, and here Yoshikazu Mera shows off his credentials with superb vigour and the utmost panache.
		In this eight-minute piece, Mera is quite inspired and handles Bach's extremely difficult vocal writing with relish, especially in the middle section of the work.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/jun99/baroque.htm (321 words)

	Baroque Arias Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Mera's voice is certainly different from our leading American counter-tenors, such as David Daniels and Brian Asawa.
		Mera tends to use his chest register, non falsetto voice (as some prefer to call it) more often than certain other counter-tenors and he uses it not really as a device for drama, rather as a means to extend his lower range naturally.
		Yoshikazu Mera's voice is lush, gentle, and pure.
	www.metareview.com /product-baroque-arias/B0000060H6 (841 words)

	Romance - zonExplorer
		Shigeo Genda, Yoshikazu Mera, Masayuki Kino, Antonin Dvorak, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergey Rachmaninov and Erik Satie
		Whilst it can be safely said that Mera has never put out a bad disc, he has however put out a number which verge on blandness.
		Whilst the production is excellent (as always) and Mera is once more captured at a level of mastery few singers could ever hope to attain; the disc is rather forulaic and a shade uninspiring.
	www.celtic-one-design.com /php/B00000DDLN.htm (749 words)

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	Classical Net Review - Precious - Christmas Music with Yoshikazu Mera
		Mera has made several recordings for Bis, and probably will be known to most classical collectors for his work with the Bach Collegium Japan.
		Mera pretty much opens up his mouth and lets his beautiful (and somewhat disembodied) sounds come out.
		Mera may not be a remarkable singer, but he has a truly remarkable voice.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/b/bis01049a.html (382 words)

	Yoshikazu Mera: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Precious: Christmas Music With Yoshikazu Mera finds the Japanese vocalist performing a number of Christmas favorites.
		To hear of a Japanese counter-tenor may come as quite a surprise, but Yoshikazu Mera proves that he is an accomplished and extremely talented artist with a quality of voice that rivals the other Western counter-tenors such as Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley and Daniel Taylor, among others.
		He offers us 21 Japanese folk and pop songs accompanied on the piano on Mother's Songs, all accompaniments being as simple as they can be.
	www.music.com /person/yoshikazu_mera/1 (235 words)

	Romance
		I bought this CD to hear Yoshikazu Mera's version of Rachmininov's "Vocalise" (I also recommend Natalie Dassay's version of this piece).
		Mera's singing fills the universe between your ears with grace and leaves you no room for you to pedantically admire his mastery while you are listening -- not any more than you can see light as it lights up the face of your beloved.
		And as much as I love Gerard Lesne's voice also, Mera's is of another order: he casts sorcery over Handel's pieces and lets you hear and become aware of the thalassic mystery of sadness inherent in the ephemerality of all manner of beauty......destined to fade away into the silent void of space.
	www.wenpda.com /qB00000DDLN/Romance.html (1114 words)

	Peter Kooij (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		by: Masaaki Suzuki, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij, Yoshikazu Mera, Japan Bach Collegium, Aki Yanagisawa, Midori Suzuki, Johann Sebastian Bach
		by: Masaaki Suzuki, Masaaki Suzuki, Ingrid Schmithusen, Yoshikazu Mera, Gerd Turk, Makoto Sakurada, Yoshie Hida, Chiyuki Urano, Peter Kooij, Johann Sebastian Bach
		by: Bach Collegium Japan, Johann Sebastian Bach, Yoshikazu Mera, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij, Masaaki Suzuki, Mindori Suzuki
	www.abmbirds.com /artist/music/Peter+Kooij (316 words)

	Songsearch: Buy Yoshikazu Mera Music CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Yoshikazu Mera - Baroque Arias Ii: Handel, Ahle, Buxtehude, Et Al
		Yoshikazu Mera - Baroque Arias: Bach, Handel, Ahle
		Yoshikazu Mera - Romance: Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Grieg, Gounod, Etc.
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	yoshikazu mera,japan philharmonic symphony orchestra
		Yoshikazu Mera's voice is amazingly pure and comforting.
		The programme is cleverly thought out and some of the arrangements for the songs are really very refreshing.
		The only thing I'd say is Yoshikazu Mera's diction on languages perhaps he's not so familiar with.
	web.telia.com /~u52304769/mera.html (150 words)

	Baroque Arias - softwareuserguides.com Info and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		by: Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Japan Bach Collegium, Johann Rudolf Ahle, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Heinrich Schutz
		Mera tends to use his chest register, non falsetto voice (as some...
		by Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Japan Bach Collegium, Midori Suzuki, Monika Frimmer, Gerd Turk, Johann Sebastian Bach
	www.softwareuserguides.com /shop/asinsearch_B0000060H6.html (690 words)

	eBay - yoshikazu mera, Music items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		YOSHIKAZU MERA THE BEST OF (18 TRACK CD 2002)
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		Baroque Arias Vol 2 - NEW SEALED CD - Yoshikazu Mera
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	Harapan CD GATEWAY: Yoshikazu Mera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Mera Yoshikazu is Japanese Counter Tenors and bebame popular singing theme song of "Mononoke,"bestseller animation movie by Miyazaki Hayao.
		Baroque Arias / Mera, Suzuki, Concerto Palatino, et al
		Baroque Arias Vol 2 - Handel, Ahle, et al / Mera, Suzuki
	www.harapan.co.jp /english/e_books/cd/CD_clasic_Mera.htm (307 words)

	Amazon.com: Mother's Songs - Japanese Popular Songs: Music: Yoshikazu Mera,Natsuko Uchiyama,Ikuma Dan,Fumihiko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		He appears to be quite young and may be just starting his career.
		Whereas most countertenors I've heard have a boy-soprano, brassy sound, Mera has a mellow, mezzo sound with a nice vibrato.
		Mera has the most beautiful voice I've heard in a long time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000016PZ?v=glance (685 words)

	Peter Kooij Audio CDs: Music-Hills.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Johann Sebastian Bach, Mindori Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan (Artist)
		Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Japan Bach Collegium, Ingrid Schmithusen, Yoshie Hida, Gerd Turk, Makoto Sakurada, Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: St. John Passion / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, et al
		Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Japan Bach Collegium, Ingrid Schmithusen, Yoshie Hida, Gerd Turk, Makoto Sakurada, Masaaki Suzuki (Artist)
	www.music-hills.com /Peter-Kooij (512 words)

	Yoshikazu Mera / Bridge-Best of Yoshikazu Mera
		Yoshikazu Mera is now an internationally acclaimed countertenor, and this album is his best-of assortment.
		Nostalgia - Yoitomake no Uta / Yoshikazu Mera
		Haha no Uta - Nihon kakyokushu / Yoshikazu Mera
	www.cdjapan.co.jp /(blue)/detailview.html?KEY=KICC-330 (141 words)

	Yoshikazu Mera : Precious: Christmas Music With Yoshikazu Mera - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Yoshikazu Mera : Precious: Christmas Music With Yoshikazu Mera - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
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	Amazon.co.uk: Bach: Cantatas, Vol 2 (BWV 71, 131, 106) /Bach Collegium Japan · Suzuki: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Performed by Bach Collegium Japan with Aki Yanagisawa, Yoshikazu Mera, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy
		I am not a native German speaker, but I can understand every word of the cantata texts, which is a real joy and a rare occurence, even on recordings by European (German) ensembles.
		The solo performances are outstanding, in particular Mera's and Suzuki's, I think; they bring a real purity of sound which I love.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000263JE (740 words)

	Soundtrack - Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke Main Theme) (Yoshikazu Mera) - Order Now! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
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	Lycos- 'Bach Cantatas volume 5 Bach Collegium Japan Yoshikazu Mera' in 'Classical Music'
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	Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs / Yoshikazu Mera, Ogura - buy at 10% discount.
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	amusicarea.com - Precious: Christmas Music with Yoshikazu Mera - Sharifi Jamshied/ Wittman Ben/ Harline Leigh
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