Hinako Takagi

Hinako Takagi (born 1989) is a Japanese composer and pianist who is a lecturer of the composition faculty at the Osaka College of Music.^[1] She has received critical acclaim for her oboe solo and ensemble composition work. In 2019, she became the second Japanese to win the First Prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition.^[2] Her award-winning work "L'instant" was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021.^[3]

Biography[edit]

Takagi was born and raised in Hyogo, Japan. In junior high, she was asked to compose a song for her class for a school event. The experience inspired her to be interested in music composition. She majored in piano in high school, and enrolled in composition major in university.

In her freshman year, she received an assignment from her teacher, Prof. Yoko Kubo, to compose "100 variations of the same piece in one year." From this task, she learned the basics of composition.

She studied composition with Yoko Kubo and Allain Gaussin. Currently she is working as a lecturer at Osaka College of Music^[4] in Osaka, Japan.

As a music genre that one may find difficult to listen to, Takagi wants to turn contemporary music to something more familiar for everyone. She has been organizing events like small concerts with new musical arrangements to engage people’s interest in contemporary music.

Performances[edit]

In 2019, she won First Prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition^[5] a gateway for young musicians. Her award-winning work "L'instant" was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021.^[6]

"L'instant" means "moment" in French, and was inspired by the famous painting "Candle" from the Japanese painter Yajuro Takashima. In this work, the "mystery" and "impression" of the ancient Greeks fire were revived and expressed through modern music.

Awards[edit]

• 3rd place (Composition Division), 86th Japan Music Competition 2017 (winning work "Atmospheric circulation" for string quartet and prepared piano)
• 1st place (Composition), Geneva International Music Competition 2019 (winning work "L'instant")^[7]
• Winner, PROJECT21st Masterclass and Concert Series (MaCS) Call-for-Score (Composition for Flute), Hong Kong^[8]

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