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Chiharu Taki

Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music, Zurich University of the Arts, and the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. Studied under Reiko Ueno, Akiko Tatsumi, Zakhar Bron, and Sasha Gavrilov. Won first prize at the Novosibirsk International Violin Competition, first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, and third place at the David Oistrakh International Competition, among other prestigious international competitions. She began her professional music career while still in high school, performing solo recitals both domestically and internationally, debuting her CD, and collaborating with major orchestras around the world, working with renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Hubert Soudant, Gerd Albrecht, Norichika Iimori, and Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi. At the same time, she actively studied and participated in chamber music and orchestral work at the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy. In 2010, she performed with Haruko Ueda at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In 2012, after performing as concertmaster of the Animato Orchestra in Switzerland, she toured renowned concert halls across Europe. In 2015 and 2016, she was invited to the Davos Festival in Switzerland, and in the same year, she performed with the New Berlin Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie. From 2015 to 2017, she was an artist for the Pictet Patronage Project at Pictet Asset Management. In 2018, her 10th-anniversary celebration concert, "All Prokofiev Program," was highly acclaimed, and the following year, she was invited to the Musica Nigella Festival in Le Touquet, France, where she received great praise. In January 2019, she served briefly as the concertmaster of the Munich Radio Orchestra. During the Beethoven Year of 2020, she undertook a full cycle of Beethoven's violin sonatas in online distribution. In April 2021, she performed at Opera City’s "B→C" event, where she received attention for collaborating with an unprecedented number of artists and instruments, spanning various genres. In September 2022, she was invited to the Far Eastern Classic Music Festival in Budapest, where she was highly praised. In May 2023, she released "PROKOFIEV STORY," which was selected as a special recommendation in the final issue of Record Geijutsu magazine, among other media accolades, and in the same year, she won second place in the chamber music category of the "ONTOMO MOOK Record Academy Award." She has also contributed works by contemporary Japanese composers, including Yui Kakinuma, Miho Hasama, Yuki Umemoto, Akiko Yamane, and Yuhaku Nemoto, and has actively commissioned compositions, continuing to pursue her unique musical style.
