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Mika TAKEHARA

Solo percussion

International soloist

Teaching: July 17th - 21st

Masterclass: July 18th

In concert: July 19th, 20th and 21st


Mika Takehara, international Japanese percussion and marimba soloist based in Sweeden. She debuted as marimba soloist with the Kroumata Ensemble at the International Percussion Event organized in conjunction with Stockholm’s year as Cultural Capitol of Europe in 1998. Afterwards she has performed as soloist with the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Gustavo Dudamel, with the Saito Kinen Orchestra under conductor Seiji Ozawa and with orchestras such Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucern Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the Saito Kinen Orchestra with the conductor Seiji Ozawa.

 

Mika Takehara studied percussion and timpani in Tokio with Prof. Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Kyoichi Sano and Akikuni Takahashi among others and marimba with the world famous marimba-virtuoso Keiko Abe. Mika received her Research Diploma at Toho Gakuen in 1997 and got invited by professor Anders Loguin at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm as a guest student. After four years of studies in Stockholm she obtained her soloist diploma with the highest honors, giving her diploma recital with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

In 2015 Mika debut as a composer with the piece Ichos to the dancer Virpi Pahkinen, percussion solo and electronics. Two years later the music documentary "Sonica Sequence" was premiered in Copenhagen in which Mika and Lisa Nordstrom, duo ZAWAZAWA, perform with a session recorded in Tokyo

 

2017-2018 seasons highlights will be a solo recital in Stockholm Concert house and chamber Concert at the Swedish Radio Halland season 2018-2019 will contain a world premier of composer Johannes Janssons' Marimba Concerto with Swedish National Orchestra in Gothenburg and solo concert tour in Japan and Sweden with Musica Vitae.

 

Mika Takehara is an Sabian cymbals LTD Canada and Pearl Drums artist.