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Harpsichordist
Takae Ohnishi has performed extensively as a
soloist, chamber musician and continuo player. She 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 next
solo CD Goldberg
Variations will soon be released on Bridge
Records.
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.
