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Taka Kigawa
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Special Japan Benefit Town Hall at Alwan For The Arts

April 5, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm
Please join us for a special monthly Town Hall as the Asian American Arts Alliance (a4) community gathers together to help support relief efforts in Japan. We'll have special artistic performances from the Japanese and the Asia Pacific region as well as a meditation Qigong practice dedicated to all those who have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami.A representative from the Japan Society will be on hand to share updates about their Relief Fund and how their efforts are helping people…See More
Apr 4, 2011
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March Town Hall at Asian American / Asian Research Institute

March 1, 2011 from 10am to 12pm
Who Will You Meet at Town Hall? Make unexpected, enriching and inspiring connections at this cornerstorne event of NYC's arts community.If you wish to make a 2-minute pitch include a one sentence description in the comment section below. If you will not be pitching but want your contact information to be accessible to other Town Hall attendees, please RSVP in the comment box below. Thirty-second micropitches are available for those last-minute pitchers.Don't miss it- no two Town Halls are the…See More
Feb 27, 2011
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Taka Kigawa Piano Recital at (le) Poisson Rouge

August 23, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Critically acclaimed pianist TAKA KIGAWA will present a solo piano recital on Monday, August 23rd, 2010, at 7:30 pm, at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The program includes First Sonata for Piano by Pierre Boulez, Echoes’ White Veil by Jason Eckardt, On A Clear Day by Matthias Pintscher, Variations for Piano, Op. 27 by Anton Webern, and Evryali by Iannis Xenakis.Taka Kigawa’s solo recitals at (Le) Poisson Rouge in August 2009 and January 2010 were both huge successes and received…See More
Aug 9, 2010
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Artist
Discipline(s)
Music
In your own words, what is your ethnic identity? (for individuals)
Japanese
Your Artistic Background/Mission
Critically acclaimed pianist TAKA KIGAWA has earned outstanding international recognition as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber music artist since winning First Prize in the prestigious 1990 Japan Music Foundation Piano Competition in Tokyo, and the Diploma Prize at the 1998 Concurs Internacional Maria Canals De Barcelona in Spain, with such accolades from The New York Times as “Mr. Kigawa’s feat deserves the highest praise, especially since it was combined with such alacrity and sensitivity to the musical material ... brilliantly done … a careful and serious-minded musician, quietly poetic and considerate” and from The New Yorker “Unbelievably challenging program. Kigawa is a young artist of stature.”

He has performed extensively as a recitalist and soloist in New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Cleveland, Paris, Milan and Barcelona, with appearances in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Cité de la musique and Salle Gaveau in Paris, and Plau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. He frequently tours in his native Japan, appearing in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano and Kyoto, both as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music groups. He has been a featured artist on many television and radio networks throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

His repertoire is extremely large and varied, ranging from the baroque to avant-garde compositions of today. Mr. Kigawa has collaborated closely with such renowned musicians as Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung and Jonathan Nott.

Mr. Kigawa grew up in Nagano, Japan, where he began piano studies at the age of three, winning his first competition at the age of seven. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Shinsyu University, and his Master of Arts degree from Tokyo Gakugei (Liberal Arts) University, graduating with honors in Piano Performance. During both his undergraduate and graduate years, he also studied composition and conducting, receiving high honors in both disciplines. He furthered his studies in the United States at The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Josef Raieff, was recipient of the distinguished Alexander Siloti Award, and earned his Master of Music degree. Mr. Kigawa currently lives in New York.

For more information about Taka Kigawa, visit: www.takakigawa.com.
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