Kyoko TAKEZAWA

As the embodiment of musicality, violinist Kyoko Takezawa electrifies audiences with a richness of playing, a virtuosic confidence of feeling, and a fiery intensity that establishes her as one of today’s foremost violinists.

Her interpretive insight and indisputable talent have made her a sought-after soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras.

Kyoko Takezawa has worked with the most prestigious orchestras worldwide including New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Cleveland, Baltimore, Saint Louis, Houston, Toronto, Dallas, Montreal, Detroit and Cincinnati, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Symphony, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NHK Symphony and the New Japan Philharmonic.

She has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Roberto Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. She has performed at major venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, London’s BBC Proms; Vienna’s Musikverein and Suntory Hall.

A highly accomplished chamber music performer, Ms. Takezawa has participated to the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Taipei International Chamber Music Festival and Great Mountain Music Festival in Korea. As co-director of the Suntory Festival Soloists of Suntory Hall in Tokyo, she has collaborated with the late Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Joseph Suk and Pinchas Zukerman.

Highlights of 2017-18 season include concerts with New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Mito Chamber Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. A prolific chamber music performer, Kyoko Takezawa will take part to the Suntory Chamber Music Garden Series at the Suntory Hall, along with participations to Tokyo Spring Festival and to Casals Festival Series at the Theatre des Champs-Elyées.

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Takezawa has recorded numerous CDs including all Brahms’s Violin Sonatas with pianist Itamar Golan by Sony Music Japan. BMG’s RCA Victor Red Seal label released her recordings of ‘Romanza’, Violin concerto Op. 14, with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Sir Colin Davis and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony, all Mendelssohn’s Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with Klaus Peter Flor and the Bamberg Symphony.

Kyoko Takezawa’s TV appearances include participation to the BBC channel 4 TV programme’s “Concerto!” where she performed Bartok’s Second Concerto guided by Dudley Moor, to A &E morning show and to the two hours documentary by TV Aichi in Japan.

As an educator she is on the faculty of Toho Music School in Japan and served as a jury member for the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Menuhin. She received the prestigious Idemitsu Award for outstanding musicianship and Aichi Art Cultural Award.

June 2017

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Kyoko TAKEZAWA Major Conductors & Orchestras

Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Orchestra Bayerischen Rundfunk R. Chailly Chicago Symphony C. Eschenbach Cleveland Symphony San Francisco Symphony K. Masur Gewandhaus Orchester W. Sawallisch Philadelphia Orchestra NHK Symphony Accademia di Santa Cecilia S. Ozawa New Japan Philharmonic D. Zinman Tonhalle Orchester C. Dutoit NHK Symphony R. Abbado Montreal Symphony R. Frühbeck de Burgos Los Angeles Philharmonic L. Slatkin Royal Concertgebouw Orchester St. Louis Symphony J. Laredo NY String Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis BBC Symphony Boston Symphony M. Janowski Weimar Staatskapelle Berlin Radio Symphony M. Tilson-Thomas San Francisco Symphony Sir Neville Marriner Montreal Symphony C.P. Flor Bamberg Symphony E. Krivine Stuttgart Symphony Orchestre National de Lyon L. Foster Chicago Symphony V. Fedossejew Moscow State Radio Symphony

Kyoko TAKEZAWA Repertoire with orchestra

Barber Concerto Bartok Concerto n.1 & 2 Rhapsody nn.1 & 2 Beethoven Concerto in D Major Concerto for violin, piano and cello Berg Concerto Bernstein Serenade Brahms Concerto Double Concerto for violin and cello Bruch Concerto n.1 Scottish Fantasy Dvorak Concerto Elgar Concerto Glazunov Concerto Kabalevsky Concerto Khachaturian Concerto Lalo Concerto Mendelssohn Concerto in e minor Mozart Concerto n. 1,2,3,5 Prokofiev Concerto n.2 Concerto n.1 Saint-Saëns Concerto n.3 Shostakovich Concerto n.1 Concerto n.2 Schumann Concerto Sibelius Concerto Stravinsky Concerto Szymanowski Concerto nn.1 & 2 Tchaikovsky Concerto Vivaldi Four Seasons