Eriko Takezawa

Born in Hiroshima, Japan, she studied in Germany with pianists Naoyuki Taneda and Wolfgang Manz.
In 1984, she won the Ostuni International Piano Competition (Italy) and has won numerous awards with the duo she forms with Christoph Sischka. In addition to the solo and duo repertoire, she specializes in chamber music and has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Israel, and Egypt. She has also participated in the German festivals of Schleswig-Holstein, Lucerne, and Schwetzingen.She is a professor at the universities of Karlsruhe (Germany), Basel (Switzerland), and Musikene (Spain) and participates as an accompanying pianist in many international competitions in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland. She is currently a professor and accompanying pianist in the IF International Foundation Trumpet Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music.