Norie Takahashi

In 2005 the Japanese pianist Norie Takahashi made a considerable impression on the music world with her success at the 1st International Beethoven Competition 2005 in Bonn, where she won 2nd prize and a special prize for best interpretation of a contemporary composition. The “General Anzeiger” wrote about her “ the pianist of heart “.

After her studies at the Toho University of Music in Japan Takahashi came to Berlin in 2000 as a DAAD scholarship holder to study under Prof. Klaus Hellwig at the University of the Arts at Berlin.

Apart from this, she has received important musical stimuli in master’s course under Robert Levin, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Ferenc Rados, Vitaly Margulis, Michail Voskressenski and Heinrich Schiff (chamber music ) etc…
At the time of her studies in Japan she had already celebrated several international successes: She received the finalist diploma at the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in Brussels and the special prize at the Beethoven Competition in Vienna.

Furthermore she received 2nd prize at the Berlin Artur Schnabel Competition, the Steinway Prize Berlin and the special prize of the Leeds International Piano Competition. In 2003 she won 1st prize in song duet with baritone Peter Schoene and the audience prize at the International Competition “Franz Schubert and Contemporary Music” in Graz.
Norie Takahashi has given concerts not only in Japan and Germany, but also in Belgium, Holland, Italy, France, Austria, Turkey, Lebanon and Korea.

Moreover, her concerts have been heard in some of the most important concert halls, e.g. in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Bahnhof Rolandseck Concert Hall, in the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, the Suntry Hall, the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, the Kioi Hall in Tokyo and the Symphony Hall in Osaka.

She has been invited to numerous international music festivals: She performed at the “Piano Festival Ruhr“, the ”Carinthischen Sommer”, the “Mosel Festival”, the “Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival” ,the “Mannta Festival “ ,the “Tongyeong Music Festival (Korea)”, and the “ Gimhae Music Festival ( Korea ) “etc…
Besides the above-mentioned concerts, she has performed with the Beethoven Orchestra (Bonn), the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Filharmonia Pomorska, the Taegu Gala Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra,the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra.
Takahashi is also active as a chamber musician. She has worked with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aribert Reimann and Axel Bauni and has also dealt intensively with contemporary song as well as the great romantic repertory.
Also she played with the Minguet Quartett, cellists Danjulo Ishizaka, Johannes Moser and Damien Ventula and the violinist Viviane Hagner etc…

In 2009 she started playing in a Piano duo with the pianist Björn Lehmann.
Since 2009 give she several master classes and private lessons in Germany, Japan and Korea.
Takahashi has made several radio recordings at NDR (North German Broadcasting Co.), WDR (West German Broadcasting Co.), ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Co.), RBB ( Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Co.) and NHK ( Japanese Broadcasting Co.).
A live CD of her recital in Tokyo in 2003 has been published at the label Accustic.

In 2007 a live CD of Beethoven’s Concerto Nr. 4 with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Helmut Mueller-Bruehl has published at NAXOS, In 2009 a live CD of four Beethoven Sonatas has published at Nami-Records.