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Piano Recital - Kaoruko Takagi
Event by: Steinway & Sons Vienna
Location: Piano house Opernring GmbH, Opernring 6/8, Wien - Innere Stadt
About event
Concert Series presented by Stefan Mendl
Kaoruko Takagi was born in Japan in 1996 and began playing the piano at the age of 3.
She studied piano with Elena Ashkenazy and with Hiroko Nakamura since 2009.
Musically, she was taught by Sergei Edelmann, Misao Okuda, Vladimir Tropp, Michiko Ono, Norma Fischer, Yu Kosuge and Michael Krist In 2012 she received a scholarship to the Tokyo College of Music High School and studied there with Hironao Suzuki, Mari Takeda and Yuko Sekine.
Since 2015 she has been studying concert piano with Lilya Zilberstein at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, since 2019 she has been studying with Boris Petrushansky at the Imola international piano academy (Italy), and since 2024 she has been studying chamber music with Stefan Mendl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In 2018 she received 1st prize at the “10th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition”, she received 2nd prize at the “Dr. Josef Dichler Piano Competition” at the mdw, she received 3rd prize at the “Imola city award 2019”, and she received a special prize at the “Bösendorfer Competition 2024” at the mdw.
In the year In 2019 she gave a chamber music concert with members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
In 2022 she was selected as a soloist for a concert of the complete Beethoven piano concertos at the ORF RadioKulturhaus. The concert was broadcast on the Austrian television station ORFⅢ.
She has played in important places such as the Musikverein Brille Saal, Ehrbar Saal, Vienna Bösendorfer Salon, Vienna Steinway Salon, Arnold Schönberg Center, Muth Concert Hall, etc.
She was a scholarship holder of the Anny Felbermayer Fund in 2017/18.
PROGRAM: Scarlatti, Mozart, Medtner, Rachmaninoff