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Harpsichordist
Takae Ohnishi has performed extensively as a
soloist, chamber musician and continuo player.
The
Gramophone remarks that “Ohnishi’s
brilliant artistry immerses the listener in the creative
and emotional narratives Bach unfolds with incomparable
mastery.” Classics Today
described her
performance as “masterful,” and praises its “vitality and
impressively differentiated articulation.”
Ms. Ohnishi has been the principal harpsichordist at
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, as well as a soloist with the
Berlin Philharmonic Scharoun Ensemble, Gardner Chamber
Orchestra, and continuo player with Pro Arte Chamber
Orchestra, and Bach Collegium San Diego. She has performed
at the Boston Early Music Festival, the American Academy in
Rome, and took part in the complete Brandenburg Concertos
at the Gardner Museum directed by Paula Robison. 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.
Ms. Ohnishi is a prizewinner at the International Early
Music Harpsichord Competition in Japan. Her debut CD
A Harpsichord
Recital was selected as an
International Special Prized CD by the Japanese leading
music magazine Record
Gei-jyu-tsu. Her recording of contemporary
music is released on Mode and New World Records. Her latest
solo disc Goldberg
Variations is released on Bridge Records
to critical acclaim.
As a lecturer, Ms. Ohnishi has been invited to lecture and
give master classes in Yantai, China, Toho Gakuen School of
Music in Tokyo, as well as the Early Music Festival in
Fukuoka, Japan. She participated in a lecture series
entitled “Historical Performance Practice,” recorded and
published by Tokyo’s Muramatsu Gakki company. Her recent
recital tour in Japan was broadcast nationally on NHK TV
program “Classic Ku-ra-bu.”
Ms. Ohnishi graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music, 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. Her teachers include Arthur
Haas, Peter Sykes, John Gibbons and Chiyoko Arita. Since
2007, Ms. Ohnishi has been Lecturer of Harpsichord and
Baroque Chamber Music at the University of California, San
Diego, and she also taught at the University of San Diego.
In 2011-12, Ms. Ohnishi serves as Visiting Artist at the
American Academy in Rome.
