SACRAMENTO — “Japan Meets the West,” a free concert featuring mezzo-soprano Yukako Tatsumi-Margaritoff and Dr. John Cozza on piano, will be held on Monday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cosumnes River College Recital Hall, 8401 Center Parkway in Sacramento.

Tatsumi-Margaritoff will sing Japanese songs and European songs in six languages. Her repertoire includes Western composers Schubert, Brahms, Offenbach, Bizet, Rossini, Barber, Tchaikovsky and Hajiev as well as Japanese composers Hirai, Yamada, Okano, Bekku, Takagi, Dan, Tanimura and Nakada.

She was born in Osaka and started to learn the piano at the age of 3 with a distinguished Russian pianist. After graduating a master course in singing at Osaka National University, she was awarded the Rotary International Foundation (USA) Scholarship for Music at Cologne National University of Music in Germany, with singing as her special subject.

She went on to study for three and a half years at the Conservatorio di Bologna, graduating as “cantante” (opera singer). After Italy, she worked in Sofia, Bulgaria, giving concerts and performing at the Sofia National Opera. Many of these performances were broadcast on Bulgarian national radio and television.

Tatsumi-Margaritoff has performed in many other European countries and North America, notably a solo recital at the world-famous Schleswig-Holstein International Festival in Germany.

Her future plans include performances in a number of locations throughout Europe and in Japan.

Tatsumi-Margaritoff had a guest-professorship from two universities, Aichi-Geijutsu State College for Art and Music in Japan and Hamburger Konservatorium. She is currently living in Hamburg, Germany.

For more information on the concert, e-mail Cozzafamily@aol.com.