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Ms. Komatsu has been a featured soloist in a variety of genres, from opera and concert to jazz and musical theater. Examples include the role of Violetta in La traviata with the Kiev National Opera (for which she received Ukraine's Golden Fortune Medal), Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Russian opera arias with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in Moscow, a jazz concert with pianist Makoto Ozone at the Sony Open Golf Tournament in Hawaii, and a four-week run of the musical revue Vienna to Broadway with Between Friends Music Theatre in Ontario, Canada.

On the operatic stage, Ms. Komatsu has been equally successful as an actress and singer. In praise of her portrayals of such roles as Mimi and Musetta in La bohème, Violetta in La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Micaëla in Carmen, press reviewers have described her as having "gorgeous sonority," "awesome skill," "great musical sensitivity" and acting ability which is "consistently poignant" and "moving." She has worked with stage directors Matthew Lata, Gary Race, Roger Brunyate and Mary Charbonnet, among others.

She also has sung extensively in concert and oratorio, having appeared with such orchestras as the Moscow Radio Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, to name only a few. Conductors have included Julius Rudel, Eiji Oue, Fiora Contino, Richard Kapp, Chosei Komatsu, Grant Cooper, Grzegorz Nowak, Raymond Harvey and more.

In 1992, Ms. Komatsu made her Russian debut with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in an opera gala concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses for an audience of more than 5,000. Her performance of Tchaikovsky arias was enthusiastically praised as being "in the finest tradition of the Bolshoi Theatre." She has since returned to Russia to appear with the Bolshoi Theatre Sextet, Moscow Radio Symphony and St. Petersburg Symphony. European engagements have taken her also to Poland, Ukraine, England, Denmark and Germany.

Ms. Komatsu first sang in Tokyo in 1996, with the New Japan Philharmonic in Casals Hall, and has since appeared as the featured soloist with many of the major Japanese orchestras. She has presented numerous concerts in Japan, including a song recital at Nagoya's new Munetsugu Hall during its inaugural season in 2007. In addition, she has participated in six chamber music tours there and, for three consecutive summers, performed and taught at the Takefu International Music Festival as an artist-in-residence.

In addition, she produced and costumed Madama Butterfly for the National Opera Company of Costa Rica, which presented nine performances at the National Theater in San José to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in 2005. In recognition of her work on that production, she was named Artist of the Year by Costa Rica's La República newspaper.

For a decade, she was a professor of voice at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Teaching activity also has included lecture recitals at Moscow State University (Russia) and Kunitachi School of Music (Japan), and master classes in Japan, China, Canada, Costa Rica and the United States.

Ms. Komatsu currently lives in Florida, USA.