Sayuri ARAIDA / Vocal / Accademia della Musica di Cagliari / Cagliari, Italy

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Sayuri ARAIDA
Profile of Sayuri Niida
Started singing in the third year of high school.Studied under Michio Kano sensei.Currently enrolled in the opera research area of ​​the Tokyo College of Music Graduate School of Vocal Music. Studied under Peggy Bouvre at the 2008 Cagliari Summer International Music Academy in Italy. Since 2006, he has been a special stipend student for three consecutive years. Performed at the 2007 Tokyo College of Music Graduation Concert, the 77th Yomiuri Rookie Concert in the same year, and the Saitama Rookie Concert in the same year.He also appeared twice in the afternoon concert sponsored by JT.


Arai I started learning vocal music in June of my third year of high school, and then I entered the vocal music performance course of Tokyo College of Music.Currently, I am in the second year of graduate school.I am enrolled in the opera research area of ​​the vocal music major.

Niida Yes, I didn't.

Niida There was a chorus presentation at a school where junior high school and high school are focusing on special music.At that time, sensei of Tokyo College of Music came to the chorus instruction, and that sensei heard my voice and said, "Why don't you go to the music college?" I started singing because I wanted to try it if I could.

Niida No, it's not.At that time, that sensei introduced me to Michio Kano sensei of Tokyo College of Music, and I started learning from scratch in June of my third year of high school.

Niida Anyway, I studied desperately.It was too late to start, so I was dying for eight months until the entrance examination in February, so I studied without shaking my eyes.I didn't have basic knowledge of music, and I couldn't play the piano.When I was doing it desperately, I found that my voice grew as I saw it.

Niida I've grown to the point where I think I'll pass the vocal music course even if I can't do it.At that time, I wasn't singing in public at all, so I wasn't nervous at all during the entrance examination.I wondered if it was good, I passed it safely.I was a very unscrupulous student for two years after entering university (laughs).However, when I was in my third year of college, I met Yuko Kamado sensei, learned about the wonderfulness and enjoyment of music through the guidance of sensei, and learned the importance of studying for myself. I give priority to songs so much that I can't.

Niida Yes, I've done it all at university.
 -Have you ever attended an overseas class?
Niida No, it's not.

A friend of mine is working for Niida And Vision, and if you talk to that friend about studying abroad, you can get various information.E-mail MagazineThey sent me regularly.So I wanted to go abroad, but I didn't really want to attend any of the classes.At that time, it happened that the Cagliari class was introduced in the e-mail magazine, and the content of the class was "I can go to Sardinia" and "I can do the class in a beautiful city overlooking the wonderful Mediterranean world heritage site". I was bitten by the phrase.That is the best motive (laughs).

Niida No, this was my first time.

Niida I thought that Europe would be a good place to go vaguely, so I hadn't decided on a particular country.Also, since the music I'm mainly studying at school is French music, I wanted to know French and French culture.Cagliari is Italy, but I was also interested in this class because the instructor was in France.

Peggy Bouvre sensei lessons

Niida Peggy sensei is a person with a good physique that makes me think that he will make a great voice, so I myself am rather thin, so I was overwhelmed by the difference in physique with Peggy sensei. I was really worried if I could keep up with sensei.However, when the guidance was over and I went to say hello to sensei, I was relieved that he welcomed me with a very gentle smile.You taught me the lessons very carefully.I felt that sensei would add lessons to it while making use of the voice skills that I had originally studied in Japan.It was a type of sensei that was praised and stretched without much denial.

It was very impressive that Niida Peggy sensei sang and showed me.Perhaps it was because there was a language barrier, but it wasn't logical, and if there was a part that couldn't be communicated in English or French, it would show me as a sample, and the teaching method to imitate it is very good. It was impressive.

Niida was very "beautiful" and had a beautiful voice.It goes from low to high, and has a great deal of knowledge about music. No matter what genre is called vocal music, such as opera, chamber music, and other songs, it has a musical number. But I think he is the one who teaches me properly.

Niida I brought Poulenc's opera voice with all the songs and Rigoletto.

Niida taught me. I don't know if it's a song that sensei has, but it was wonderful that he taught me the feelings of the main character of the song I wanted to play.I can't explain it well, but there are scenes where I die while saying I love you in suffering.Sensei did that for me, but at that time I dropped my body from the chair and said, "I love you."Then, sensei slipped down too much and I couldn't stand up, so everyone helped me and said, "Are you okay? Sensei!" (Laughs).It was a lot of fun, but sensei taught me so seriously.


Everyone after the vocal lesson!
Niida There are nine people including me.There are 9 Japanese including me, 2 Chinese, 1 French, 3 Greek, 1 Nigerian and 1 Korean.I was about 1 or 23 years old.

Niida: sensei told me to attend, so we all had nine students in the room and listened to one singing.

Niida was very inspiring.Even if you don't understand what you are teaching, by listening to other people's lessons, you can see and understand it objectively, or when you are doing it, other children will see and excite you. As a result, I got a feeling of tension that was sleeping in me.It was a very passionate lesson.Every time, I was excited from the morning, and applauded when there was a child who could do what sensei said properly and when he heard the voice he wanted.

Niida Yes.Children from various departments heard it with rumors, and the singing lessons were almost full, and depending on the day, the number of galleries increased so much that they couldn't fit in the lesson room.It was such a bright lesson.It was a really happy time.I was happy that everyone was enjoying the music.


Peggy Bouvre sensei
Niida There is no such thing.Maybe it's Peggy sensei's personality.It's true, isn't it?

新井田　1時間のレッスンが1人最低4回はありました。朝の10時に始まって、2〜3人受けて、みんなでお昼ご飯を食べに行って、2時くらいからまた2〜3人入って、5時くらいまであって、そのあとは解散か、それぞれ自主練をするという感じでした。

Niida That's right, but we sometimes went out to play together without practicing and talking only here (laughs). The lesson ends at 5 o'clock, so I met around 6 o'clock and went to the sea by the same bus.


Everyone at lunch time!
Niida: We're really very close, we all eat breakfast, take lessons, go to the sea, and we all eat dinner on the rooftop ...There was a rooftop in the dormitory, and there was a kitchen next to it, so we all ate rice by that side.

Niida I think it's a basic greeting.Whenever I met him, he said "Ça va?"Then, the reaction is to be done properly.If you understand what the other person is saying, if you make a reaction that says, "I really understand what you are saying," you are showing understanding to you, and I want to be very close to you. I think you can feel it.This time, everyone was out of the air, and no one knew anyone.Fortunately, there were only people who wanted to get along with everyone, so I feel like I got along with them thanks to everyone.

Niida Yes.I exchange contacts with everyone and exchange emails on my computer.

Niida No, I practiced properly.There were several practice rooms in the school, and sensei told me to "listen", but people with too different voice qualities and because I am a soprano, meso people take lessons. When I was there, I was out of the lesson room and practicing.

Niida If you want, you can do as much as you want.

Niida That's right.Since it's a song, I only need to speak upright or without a piano, so if there was a vacant room, I could ask a staff member to get the key and practice.

Niida The environment had no problems.It was cool when I opened the window, and no one complained when I opened the window.

Niida It was a bumpy city with a lot of slopes.One day, when I went to a restaurant to eat, the shop was in the middle of the slope, and the desk and chair were slanted.So my friend told the shop staff, "If it's so slanted, you can't eat it, I want you to straighten it."Then, the shop staff said, "No, it's this city." He said, "The diagonal is the characteristic of this city" (laughs).In a good way, it was easygoing like that, and everyone lived alongside the city.

Niida was beautiful.I haven't been abroad, so I can't compare it to other countries, but the building is so beautiful that it's a city that is picturesque no matter where you take it.

This is the Niida bus.There was a time when I stopped due to a breakdown, and I walked that day.The slope is amazing, I took a rest and walked on the way, so it took about 10 minutes instead of about 30 minutes by bus.

There was a kiosk right in front of the Niida student dormitory, so I bought a 7 euro bus card for 10 days with unlimited rides.It's valid for 7 days after I take the bus once, and I can ride it for 7 days, so of course I used it to go to school, and I also went to supermarkets, restaurants, and the sea by bus.It was very useful.

There was Niida.There was, but there were a lot of buses, so I didn't have much trouble.It doesn't come on time at all, but it feels like I can pick it up in an unexpected place.The electric bulletin board says that the bus will come in 50 minutes, but it will come soon.The electric bulletin board didn't mean anything at all (laughs).

Niida Yes.There is no stop announcement as kindly as in Japan, so you have to remember the scenery yourself and get off here, but you can press a button and indicate your intention to get off, just like in Japan.However, the driving was very rough (laughs).But I value pedestrians.If there is a person who seems to have crossed the road even a little, no matter how fast the car is, it will stop.It's completely different from Japan, isn't it?Driving is rough, but everyone had good manners.
 -What did you eat when eating out?
Niida Italian food.There were only Italian tomato salads such as pizza and caprese, and pasta dishes such as lasagna and fungi.

Niida was delicious.Especially the cheese was very delicious.However, unlike Japan, salad has no taste.You eat it with oil, right?So I wish I had a dressing.

Niida It was about 1 euros per person, which was quite expensive.So I bought it at the supermarket and cooked it myself.

Niida Yes, it was within walking distance.It's a very big market, so most of it was available there.The dormitory had a kitchen, but we didn't have any cooking utensils such as frying pans, so we all bought it by splitting the bill.

Niida That's really true.Also, the fact that there were so many Japanese people was the reason why I became friends with children from other departments.

Niida Each room has a key, and when you go out, you can leave the key at the reception.When I came back and received the key, I had to say the number of my key, so I think that was the security of the building.

Niida wasn't there.There was a shower where hot water came out properly, water came out, the toilet was a flush toilet, there was a refrigerator, the electricity was on, there was a window, and it was a very clean room.

Niida Yes, that's right.Students who came on vacation who did not participate in Cagliari's class were also staying, and it seemed that they were using it as an accommodation facility open to the public.When I talked to him, he was doing something unrelated to music, and when he asked, "Why are you staying here?", He told me, "I'm opening my accommodation to everyone here."I made friends who usually came to sightseeing like that.

Niida: The person was an Arab Italian, so I spoke in Italian.

Niida School was all Italian, so I also used Italian.When I talked to my friends in the dormitory, I used to speak French and English, but at shops, restaurants, buses, and supermarkets, it was all Italian.

Niida I used to go to a language school for half a year for French, but for other English and Italian, I only learn grammar at school, so I think I could speak well (laughs).


The lesson scenery looks like this
Niida I can hear it, but sometimes I couldn't return it.But when I hear it, I react, so I got to know everyone.When the story is understood, everyone talks to me.Even for us Japanese, when we talk to each other, when we talk to them, they say, "What did you say?", I think it's a little difficult to communicate, and I think it's hard to talk to them. If you overstate "I know", they will talk to you over there.

Niida There was nothing in particular.I was pretty impatient when the bus stopped on the way, but I wasn't alone, so we all walked together ...I didn't act much alone.I tried to act with a child who knew the local area and a child who knew the language as much as possible.

Niida The trouble is that on my return day, Sunday the 7th, the Pope just came to Sardinia and I couldn't use any transportation.The road was blocked by people who worshiped the Pope, and I couldn't return to the dormitory from school.I asked the police, but the police didn't deal with it, and I felt like I could return to the dormitory if I took a detour, so I avoided the crowds and just felt like I was in this direction.If I was late, I wouldn't be able to catch the plane, so I desperately went home.Everyone in the city was in a festive mood, and no matter how much I said "I want to go back to the dormitory" in Italian, they didn't listen at all, but rather "Let's get excited together" ...After all, I arrived at the dormitory safely and managed to catch the bus to the airport from the square in front of me.

Niida It was easygoing and cheerful.Everyone was laughing.When I found out that he was Japanese, he said, "Please wait a moment" or "Please come again."

Niida It wasn't bad.It was similar to Japan.There were no bad people, no gypsies, no sellers.Cagliari was a peaceful city, probably because it was a resort area.

Niida I hate big bills. If you spend 2 euros on a purchase of about 10 euros, it's no good. You are told to exchange money.It seems to be troublesome, so he doesn't give me a change.Once I made a purchase of about 43 euros, I tried to pay 75 euros.However, it seems that the shop staff wanted me to pay the details such as 50 and 0.I only had a bill, so I had a very disgusting face, and I was given a change in coins and said "Grache (thank you)", but I was told "Alivederchi (goodbye)". ..Normally, when I say thank you, I get back "Prego", but I was lonely when I said goodbye.

Niida I don't know if it will be helpful, but just because it's Italy, coffee wasn't particularly delicious.I thought that Japan was more elaborate.

Niida I think it's really delicious to season it normally, rather than sticking to it.It wasn't a secret taste, it was just that the tomato taste was delicious, the cheese was delicious, the bread dough was delicious, and the pasta dough was delicious.

Niida It seems that there were Chinese food and Japanese food, but I didn't go.

It was wonderful to have a concert by Niida sensei and others.I'm really glad that I don't have a chance to go to professional concerts other than singing, such as harps and flutes.

It was a theater near the school of Cagliari Arai.It was an ordinary hall, with a bright red carpet, like an opera theater.It was a two-story, really large theater. Not only the concerts of sensei and others, but all the remaining students seemed to have a concert there, and I later heard by e-mail that it was "very good".


With friends in the class.
Niida It was a good experience for me to feel the breadth of the world.I didn't know that I was living in a happy environment when I was in Japan, and I learned that there are many people in the world.This time, we are gathering for studying abroad in music, so there are many wealthy people as such, but in that country, each country has its own culture, history, and so on. I learned that I was growing up and learning how to live.

Niida: Even though I talked with them, there were some words and actions that I couldn't understand in Japan, and there were things that I thought about, but I thought that was the unique national character of the children.For example, Japanese people are said to be very quiet, aren't they? I was also told, "It's quiet," and "Everything feels like'Yeah.'"It's a national character or an ethnic character, isn't it?I got to know people from various countries and thought that Japanese people are like that.I think it was an opportunity to know myself that I am a weak-willed person.

Niida: You understand that I'm studying in Japan.

Niida I learned that there are people in Japan who are studying music like this.You're doing European music? Japanese sing in Italian, sing in French, sing in German ...The person over there is singing without such stress on the language.Although the language and country are different, it makes me think that there was one girl in Japan who was studying the same thing by looking at the same sheet music.I was very happy to make friends by singing my own songs with my own voice.I was very happy that I was able to communicate and enjoy the music by singing the same song even if I didn't understand the language.

Niida Language, isn't it?Of course, even if you don't understand at all, you don't have to worry.Because, in the end, you can understand each other through music.It's strange, but music only makes sounds, and you can understand each other even if you don't understand the words.However, when you want to convey your intentions or understand all the intentions of the other person, you need to learn a language.No matter how hard it may be, you should spend time and money to prepare your language.This can be said clearly.It depends on the attached sensei, but if the attached sensei is OK in English, it will be in English and Italian, and if you go to Cagliari, it will be in French, English, and Italian if possible.


At the Cagliari Theater
Niida: You have the courage to go anyway.Rather than giving advice to people who are wondering whether to go or not, it's just advice to go.No matter how much other people talk about their experiences in detail, if you don't go, you won't know until you experience them.I didn't understand either.So if I'm at a loss, I thought I should go.

There was Niida.It was only a week for me, but my personality changed, and I really felt that I was growing.Because, of course, being in Japan is stimulating, but I'm used to it.For example, a foreigner does not suddenly say "hello", and even if someone is in trouble, he does not say "hello".But that's the norm in foreign countries, isn't it?If you meet even a little, you will be asked "Sava?"At that time, I think it can't be helped to think about something by myself.If you're fine, you're fine, if you're not fine, you're not fine, and you have to put yourself out more and more.If you don't want to be talked to, don't talk to me, and it's not good halfway.However, I think that Japanese people are halfway through and it has become a kind of etiquette.It's better not to be muddy and express your opinion clearly, and as you grow up in such an environment, you can't help but stop there.When I go abroad alone, I realize that and I find myself completely different.

Niida Of course, it's up to you to grow or not.The child who participated with me also said, "I'm no longer embarrassed to put myself out, and now I can put myself out without any distinction."In that way, my way of thinking about self-expression gradually changed in a week, and I laughed and said, "I might be stronger when I return to Japan."


The last night of the class ...
Niida But when I come back to Japan, I get used to Japan again, and after all it becomes a way of life in Japan (laughs).But that's how I came to think that it was a way of life in this country.

Niida That's right.It's nice to be praised by the real people, isn't it?

Niida I would like to make use of this study abroad program.I have become so fond of foreign countries that I want to study abroad next year as well.I'm looking forward to it.I was able to think that I had to study for myself.