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Harpsichordist
Takae
Ohnishi graduated from Toho Gakuen
School of Music in Tokyo, and has performed extensively in
major cities in Japan and in the U.S. as a soloist, chamber
musician and continuo player. As a lecturer, she
participated in a lecture series entitled “Historical
Performance Practice,” recorded and published by Tokyo’s
Muramatsu Gakki company. She is a prizewinner at the
International Early Music Harpsichord Competition in Japan.
Her first solo CD “A Harpsichord Recital” was selected as
an International Special Prized CD in the Japanese music
magazine Record
Geijyutsu in 2002. In the summer of 2004,
she was featured as a soloist at the prestigious Ishihara
Hall 10th Anniversary Concert series. She
has also been invited to perform at the Fukuoka Early Music
Festival as well as Japan Early Music Performers series.
Ms. Ohnishi is an interpreter of both Baroque and
contemporary music. As a specialist in Baroque music, she
recently performed the Brandenburg Concerto and Bach’s
harpsichord Concerto as a soloist with both the Hingham
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jin Kim and the Boston
University Baroque Orchestra conducted by Martin Pearlman.
She has also appeared as a soloist at various recitals and
concert series presented by the MIT Chapel, King’s Chapel,
Swedenborg Chapel and the Boston Early Music Festival. She
has been a continuo player with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
of Boston and Hingham Symphony Orchestra. As an interpreter
of new 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
contemporary music with the Harvard Group for New Music and
the Callithumpian Consort. Ms. Ohnishi holds a Master of
Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and
is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony
Brook University, her teachers include Arthur Haas, Peter
Sykes, John Gibbons and Chiyoko Arita.
Her recent recital tour in Japan was broadcast nationally
on NHK TV in 2006. In 2007, she will be performing solo
recital “All D. Scarlatti Program” at the Boston Early
Music Festival and the complete Brandenburg Concertos at
the Gardner Museum in Boston.
Since 2007, she is Lecturer of Harpsichord at the
University of California, San Diego.
