Education

Born in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture. Graduated and completed postgraduate studies at Aichi University of the Arts with top honors.

Completed postgraduate studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany. Completed the Ensemble Modern Academy (Frankfurt). Completed the Third Cycle in Contemporary Music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

Career

After winning prizes in several domestic and international competitions, he won the Orléans International Piano Competition held in France in 2016. He has performed in numerous recitals and music festivals in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Japan, South Korea, and other countries.

As an ensemble player, he has performed concerts throughout Europe, primarily in Germany and France, collaborating with renowned European contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern (Germany) and Ensemble intercontemporain (France). As a concerto soloist, he has performed Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Orléans Symphony Orchestra, Ligeti's Piano Concerto with the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Niigata Central Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

Teaching and Recordings

As an instructor, he has conducted masterclasses not only in Japan but also at ten conservatories across France, and workshops at the Seoul National University College of Music. In 2017, he released his debut CD, "Béla Bartók and Virtuosity," in France.

Critical Acclaim

In the summer of 2020, he gave a recital organized by the Japan Federation of Musicians at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, receiving high praise in Ongaku no Tomo magazine (review by Yukiko Hagiya): "...how the performance captured the highlights of the work, brought out the structure of the masterpiece, and most importantly, impressed with the performer's bold yet precise, composer-faithful yet self-assertive and extraordinary pianism..."

Teachers and Current Status

He has studied under Hiroko Uchimya, Tatsuo Saito, Tadashi Matsukawa, Yuzo Kakeya, Vadim Sakharov, Thomas Hell, and Ueli Wiget. He currently performs primarily in Tokyo. He is a part-time lecturer at Aichi University of the Arts.

Links

• Official Website: https://www.takuyaotakipiano.com/
• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwEMBVfgI_xZ7-YjIB-WCwA