Takashi Ogawa (flautist)

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Takashi Ogawa ( Japanese 小 川隆 , Ogawa Takashi ; born July 18, 1952 in Odawara ) is a Japanese flutist .

He continued his flute studies, which he had begun in Japan, at the Hamburg University of Music with Karlheinz Zöller , followed by masterclasses with Peter-Lukas Graf , Barthold Kuijken and Hans-Martin Linde . After a year as deputy solo flutist with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Graz, Ogawa has been solo piccolo flutist with the orchestra of the Mannheim National Theater since 1977. Between 1979 and 1989 he also worked as a lecturer at the Mannheim / Heidelberg State University of Music and taught the subject of flute .

In 1981 Ogawa was a prize winner at one of the largest international competitions for early music at the “ Concours Musica Antiqua ” in Brugge (Belgium). As a traverse flutist, he founded the “Hoff-Music Mannheim” ensemble in 1980. He dedicated himself to the historical performance practice of the 18th century and the flute music of the Mannheim school . This proved to be a success and received international recognition with several radio and CD recordings, as well as appearances at numerous music festivals, such as: Autunno Musicale a Como, Festival "Arte e Natura" Portofino, Festival "Musique et Theater" Versailles, Festival Europa Mozart Prague, Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, Festival Euroklassik Zweibrücken, Festival de musique franco-allemand Alsace, "Mozart & Mannheim" Mannheim / Schwetzingen. among others

As a piccolo flutist of the Nationaltheater-Orchester in Mannheim, he is also a member of the following orchestras: "Orchestra of the 18th Century" Amsterdam (F. Brüggen), "l'Orchestre des Champs-Élysées" Paris (Ph. Herweghe), and "Capella Coloniensis “Cologne (B.Weil). among others

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Individual evidence

  1. Who is who? The German Who's Who . 45th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-2042-5 , p. 979 .