| Tomoko Yamamoto, being a photographer, a composer, and a soprano, has long been interested in presenting multimedia programs of music and photography. It was in 1993 when she set out to photograph the sites associated with Johan Sebastian Bach in Germany. Since 1994 she has been photographing the places associated with Franz Schubert's 1825 travel in Austria, which constitutes her "Schubert Project." In 2000, she showed her photographs of Bach-related places during multiple performances in Baltimore Bach Fest 2000. In 2003 she put her photographs and her own singing together in a program titled, "Bach and his World." See the list of her past performances. She has traveled to a few sites in Japan to photograph for her own songs based on ancient Japanese texts. She continues to experiment with the format combining her singing performance and her travel and landscape photography. She has even used her impressionist reflection photographs to illustrate the feelings of spring and summer. She believes that the visual elements would enhance the music being performed by helping the understanding of the composer's background and/or of the text being sung. |
