Emiko Iiyama

Emiko Iiyama is a Japanese soprano.

She was in 1968 a singer in Nikolaus Harnoncourt's recording of Bach's Mass in B minor, pioneering historically informed performances in 1968, singing the second soprano part. She recorded Bach cantatas for solo soprano, conducted by Fritz Werner, including Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, with Maurice André performing the solo trumpet part. She performed contemporary music in a concert in honour of prize winners of an Austrian composition competition. Conducted by one of them, Erich Urbanner, she sang with bravura Bojidar Dimov's Incantationes I, Kurt Schwertsik's Liebesträume, and Sommerpoesie– Winterpoesie by Günter Kahowez.