Bachelor of Arts in Music with Honors in Major Studies,
Whitman College
Master of Music in Piano Performance,
Manhattan School of Music
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, Literature and Pedagogy,
University of Maryland
Teaching Area
Applied and class piano, music theory,accompanying
Profile
MANABU TAKASAWA is an international pianist and music scholar with venues in Europe, Asia and the U.S. Hailed for his “sensitive touch” by The Washington Post, he made a solo recital debut at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1992. In July 2003 he also gave a Tokyo debut recital to a capacity audience. In addition Dr. Takasawa has performed at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, The Nietzsche Music Project in Fiesole, Italy, the Park House, in Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Yamaha Hall in Niigata, Japan.
In the summer of 2001 and 2002, he performed with John Graham, Professor of Viola at Eastman School of Music. In the summer of 2004, Dr. Takasawa’s concert activities in Belize were televised on an evening news broadcast there. Most recently, he participated in the Mozart Festival in Poznán, Poland, in which he and Slawomir Dobzranski performed recitals of two-piano compositions by Mozart and his contemporaries. In addition to Radio Merkury Poznán , Dr. Takasawa’s performances and interviews have been broadcast on NPR affiliate WSCL-FM89.5 and CBS affiliate WBOC-Channel 16 in Maryland.
Biography in Japanese
