{"id":8293,"date":"2019-02-04T03:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakai-takeda.com\/en\/?page_id=8293"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:07:05","slug":"pianoduo_nobuhito_nakai_and_miwako_takeda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nakai-takeda.com\/en\/profile\/pianoduo_nobuhito_nakai_and_miwako_takeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Pianoduo Miwako Takeda &amp; Nobuhito Nakai<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8314\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/profile_duo.png\" rel=\"lightbox[8293]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8314\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/profile_duo-228x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakai-takeda.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/profile_duo-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/nakai-takeda.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/profile_duo.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Toshiaki Yamada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nobuhito Nakai and Miwako Takeda are notably considered Japan&#8217;s foremost piano duo. Both pianists are prize winners of international piano competitions (Brahms, Maria Canals, Viotti Senigallia to name a few) on their own right formed a duo and successfully became prize winners of M.Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (U.S.A.) and in addition, husband and wife. The only couple in Japan to be bespectacled with competition prizes of WFIMC World Federation of International Music Competitions for both piano solo and duo added the honor of being chosen as the recipient for the best choice CD by \u2018Record Art Magazine&#8217; for &#8220;An die Freude&#8221; , &#8220;Dvor\u00e1k \/ From the New World&#8221; and &#8220;Fantasie&#8221; on air in ANA flight entertainment.They performed and teached MusicAlp International Music Festival and Academy in France, Jirisan International Music Festival in Korea,Italy and China.<\/p>\n<p>Nobuhito Nakai graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and finished graduate school also, after that finished meisterclass at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich on a scholarship of DAAD, He studied with Prof.Ueda, Prof. Oppitz, Prof.Kaemmerling.Nakai won the prize at many competitions, Music Competition of Japan, Johannes Brahms International Music Competition, International Piano Competition \u2018Citta di Senigallia&#8217;, G. B. Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli. He is a professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music, and a guest professor of Nagoya College of Music. He is a guest professor at Music Hochschule Detmold in Germany in winter season 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Miwako Takeda graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and finished meisterclass at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. She studied with Prof.Ueda, Prof. H\u00f6henlieder , Prof.Kontarsky.Takeda won the prize at many competitions, Maria Canals International Music Competition, G. B. 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