John Ken Nuzzo

Biography

John Ken Nuzzo (Japanese: ジョン・健・ヌッツォ) is an American tenor of Japanese origin.

Biography

Nuzzo was born in Tokyo on 5 May 1966 to a Japanese mother and an American-Italian father. Nuzzo was involved in theater in middle school and attended an international high school. While in high school, the school's music teacher Don Campbell, who would later go on to write the musical therapy book The Mozart Effect, urged him to join the Boy's Chorus.
After high school, Nuzzo moved to the United States and attended Chapman University in California. Despite initially enrolling as a business major, Nuzzo became interested in a career in music during his third year.
In 1997, he won first prize in the Japan Vocal Competition, a Japanese singing competition. The following year, he won the Japan round of the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna, which led to an opportunity to perform with the Vienna State Opera.
In 2011, he sang in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème at the Anchorage Opera House. In March of that year, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan. Nuzzo was drafted by TV stations to provide voice recordings for transit systems after the disaster.

Discography (CD)

Franz Schubert: 11 selected songs from “Die schöne Müllerin, Op.25, D.795” - Fontec
NUZZO meets PUCCINI - Fontec
Rare Live Track 2020 - Fontec
BEETHOVEN×SCHUBERT - Fontec
Serenata(Italian Art Songs) -Fontec
“DICHTERLIEBE Op.48” -Fontec
NUZZO JAZZ _
Italian Aria – Fontec
Tenorissimo – Universal Classics & Jazz
NHK Taiga Historical Drama Shinsengumi! Original Soundtrack- Universal Classics & Jazz
Treasure Voice – Universal Classics & Jazz
Petr Turrini/Friedrich Cerha [Der Riese Vom Stenfeld]- ORF
Zemlinsky [DER KONIG KANDAULES] Salzburg Festival 2002 -Andante
Benjamin Britten [Billy Budd] - Orfeo d'or

Discography (DVD)

Shigaki Saegusa [KAMIKAZE] - Sony Music Japan International
Giuseppe Verdi [SIMON BOCCANEGRA] - ORF