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Harpsichordist
Takae Ohnishi has performed extensively in
major cities in the U.S. and Japan as a soloist, chamber
musician and continuo player. She graduated from Toho
Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, and holds a Master of
Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and
a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook
University. Ms. Ohnishi moved to San Diego in 2007, and has
been serving as Lecturer of Harpsichord and Baroque Chamber
Music at the University of California, San Diego.
She has been the principal harpsichordist at Atlantic
Symphony Orchestra, as well as a soloist and continuo
player with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Gardner Chamber
Orchestra and Bach Collegium San Diego. She recently
performed a solo recital “All D. Scarlatti Program” at the
Boston Early Music Festival and the complete Brandenburg
Concertos at the Gardner Museum directed by Paula Robinson.
As a performer of contemporary music, Ms. Ohnishi appeared
as a guest artist at the Summer Institute for Contemporary
Piano Performance held at the New England Conservatory of
Music. She also performed with the Harvard Group for New
Music and the Callithumpian Consort.
A prizewinner at the International Early Music Harpsichord
Competition in Japan, Takae Ohnishi has recorded for Mode
and New World Records. Her first solo CD “A Harpsichord
Recital” was selected as an International Special Prized CD
by the Japanese leading music magazine Record
Gei-jyu-tsu. Her recent recital tour in
Japan has been broadcast nationally on NHK TV program
“Classic Ku-ra-bu.” As a lecturer, she participated in a
lecture series entitled “Historical Performance Practice,”
recorded and published by Tokyo’s Muramatsu Gakki company.
Her teachers include Arthur Haas, Peter Sykes, John Gibbons
and Chiyoko Arita.
