Takae Ohnishi

Takae Ohnishi is a Japanese harpsichordist who has performed extensively in the United States and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician and basso continuo player. She has appeared with numerous orchestras and at various venues in the United States and Japan, being a featured performer with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Ishihara Hall 10th Anniversary Concert series and the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico. She is also a music teacher and since 2007 has been an adjunct with the University of California, San Diego.

Life and education Ohnishi is a graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. She went on to earn a masters in Music from the New England Conservatory of Music and a doctorate in Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, learning from teachers such as Arthur Haas, Peter Sykes, John Gibbons and Chiyoko Arita. and in 2014 represented Japan as a soloist at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico.

Ohnishi has also performed as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Scharoun Ensemble, the Gardner Chamber Orchestra (directed by Paula Robinson)

She has been a basso continuo player with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Gardner Chamber Orchestra and the Boston University Baroque Orchestra. She has also performed with the Harvard Group for New Music and the Callithumpian Consort.

Referring to the Goldberg Variations recording, critic Benjamin Katz writes:

Recordings Her performances has appeared on discs released by Mode and New World Records including her debut on A Harpsichord Recital (2004) . Ohnishi released her own album in 2012 on Bridge Records called Bach: Goldberg Variations.