Chonatsu Takeda Violin & Yuki Hasegawa Piano Duo Concert

Chinatsu Takeda Violin https://chinatsu.jp
Chinatsu Takeda began playing the violin at the age of four under the tutelage of her grandmother, who was a pupil of Anna Ono, the founder of the Japanese female violinists, and later studied with the late violinist Nobu Wakabayashi and others.
In 2007, while still a student at the Tokyo College of Music, she became a founding member of the women's string quartet BloomQuartet, and in 2009, as the leader of the women's string ensemble BloomQuartet & Ensemble, she played violin and viola, making her debut at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. In 2014, she toured Korea with BloomQuartet, and was invited to Korea twice for a total of 6 recitals. In 2014, he held a nationwide tour in Korea with BloomQuartet. During the Corona disaster, she continued her performance activities by streaming "Chinatsu Takeda's leisurely concerts from home" on her official YouTube channel from her home. She has also devoted herself to social contribution activities such as raising awareness of cervical cancer prevention and visiting elementary schools. In 2025, she will resume her activities in earnest.

Yuki Hasegawa Piano https://yukihasegawa.com
Hasegawa has been praised in many fields for her three-dimensional and rich expressiveness, and has performed with many performers in Japan and abroad and participated in CD recordings. She has often received rave reviews in Ongaku no Tomo (Friend of Music) and other publications. The latest review of her performance with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra in the fall of 2013 was that she "clearly portrayed Schumann's unique inner fluctuation" and that her performance was "filled with a sense of color. In addition to piano performance, his conducting, arranging, and chamber music instruction are also well received. He won the 6th prize at the Brahms International Competition in 2006 (piano) and the Audience Prize at the Cilento International Music Festival in Italy in '25 (conducting). He is a graduate of the Department of Piano at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, the Department of Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de Paris, the Department of Conducting at the Conservatorio Claudio Abbado in Milan, and the Department of Accompaniment, Composition and Writing, and Orchestral Music.