Yusuke Takahashi

Yusuke Takahashi was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1994. He graduated from Ueno Gakuen University. Takahashi won First Prize and the audience prize in the piano division at the 10th Tokyo Music Competition. He has performed with conductors Norichika Iimori, Toshiaki Umeda, Masahiko Enkoji, Naoto Otomo, Tatsuya Shimono, Ken Takaseki, and Kazufumi Yamashita, and major orchestras including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chiba Symphony Orchestra and Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. Takahashi has also performed with prominent musicians including Teiko Maehashi (Vn), Tatsuya Yabe (Vn), Nobuko Imai (Va), Mutsumi Hatano (mezzo-soprano), Kohei Ueno (saxophone), Shinichiro Hikosaka (saxophone) and Atsushi Yamanaka (pianist/composer/arranger).