Bio

Taka’s most recent highlights include a role debut as Guang, the lead in Stuck Elevator, a comic-rap-scrap-metal opera, with Hawaii Opera Theatre, company debuts with Pacific Opera Project and Opera in Williamsburg, performing Goro in Madama Butterfly. He held his recital series in Japan with pianist Mari Sato, at Galba Hall Tokyo and Meguro Persimmon Hall and performed in Garden Notes: Japanese Song Concert at Secret Garden Hawaii.

During the 2022/2023 season, Taka made a role debut as Nemorino in The Elixir of Love and Colin Craven in Nolan Gasser’s opera, The Secret Garden, with the Hawai’i Opera Theatre. He performed the tenor solo in Mozart’s Requiem with MidAmerica Productions and the role of Goro in Madama Butterfly with Savannah VOICE Festival.

In his 2021/2022 season, Taka made his company and role debut at the Hawai’i Opera Theatre as Goro in Madama Butterfly and at Guerilla Opera as Manny in Gabriele Vanoni’s Ellis, a world premiere multimedia and immersive opera. In the winter of 2020, he made his Japan debut, performing the leading male role in an original Christmas musical, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, at Asakusa Kyugeki Theater in Tokyo.

As a former Young Artist at Opera Maine and the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio of the Hawaii Opera Theatre, he performed in Rossini’s Cenerentola, Gareth Williams’s Rocking Horse Winner, Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, and Verdi’s Aida.

In 2019, he made his European debut as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with Varna International Opera Academy, conducted by Gregory Buchalter and directed by Dale Morehouse in Varna, Bulgaria. He also performed the tenor solo in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with Varna International Music Academy Orchestra at The Festival and Congress Centre. In Halifax, Taka performed his Canadian debut at Halifax Summer Opera Festival as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, conducted by Peter Oleskevich. Other recent engagements include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), King Kasper (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Baron Zsupán (Countess Maritza), the title role in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, the leading male role of Charles in The Finishing School by Franz von Suppe, Le Surintendant des plaisirs in Cendrillon, and Federico in L’amico Fritz. 

Mr. Komagata co-founded Balcony Series, an artistic troupe delivering timeless classical compositions to unsuspecting listeners through impromptu performances. The series builds spontaneous bridges between everyday life and the experience of classical music by catering to audiences who would otherwise not seek out the genre.

Mr. Komagata also has a great passion for contemporary music and has worked with renowned contemporary composers. In addition to the performance of Stuck Elevator composed by Byron Au Yong, Ellis by Gabriele Vanoni, and The Secret Garden by Nolan Gasser, he’s performed the role of Mr. Foster in Timothy Peterson’s The Séance with the Hartford Opera Theater and the role of Friend in a virtual production of Felix Jarrar’s The Fall of the House of Usher.

Taka holds a Graduate Performance Diploma in Opera Performance (‘19) and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at Longy School of Music of Bard College (‘18), studying under Carol Mastrodomenico; a Certificate of Merit in Voice at New England Conservatory of Music (‘16); and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Hawaii Pacific University (‘15). He received a fourth prize from the 4th Basel International Vocal Competition (’24), an encouragement award from the 7th K Vocal Competition (‘22), and a third prize from the Yokohama International Music Competition (‘16).

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