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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.
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 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.
