A native of Yokohama, Japan, pianist Eriko Takahashi has a strong interest in lesser-known or forgotten works, as well as in contemporary music. She has given numerous first performances, received several dedications, and also performs her own compositions.

At the age of eleven, she performed in Tokyo with Roland Bader and Capella Cracoviensis. In 2013 she appeared in the Benjamin Britten centenary concert at the Brucknerhaus in Linz. In 2023 she gave a recital in the Joensuu Music Festival. In 2025 she participated in the artist-in-residence program in Estonia “Schönberg Residency”, giving five recitals in Estonia and Finland. As a soloist, chamber music player and song accompanist, she appeared in numerous concerts in Austria, Germany, France, Poland, Estonia, Finland and in Japan. She took part in the interdisciplinary collaborative performance “Musica Aerea” in 2023 and 2024. She has released the CDs “Musique Variée” (2019) and “Nordic Visions” (2025, ALM Records).

She was a judge in the international piano competition “Clavis St. Petersburg 2017” and “Japan Classical Music 2023”. Since 2020 she is a member of Japan Finland Contemporary Music Society, and since 2024 also the Sibelius Society of Japan. Since 2024 she has been teaching piano at Japan Women University in Tokyo.

She has been awarded especially at the following international piano competitions: “Cittá di Barletta” (Italy 2014), “Premio Accademia Giovani” (Rome 2015), the Julian Cochran Piano Competition (Warsaw 2015) and “Music and Earth” (Sofia 2019). In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship from the Rotary Club Wels.

After her graduation at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Takahashi moved to Austria and completed a Master of Arts degree in piano under Gottfried Hemetsberger, and chamber music under Till Alexander Körber at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, where she also studied instrumental pedagogy, and received pianoforte lessons from Wolfgang Brunner. She studied contemporary music with Joonas Ahonen and the members of the ensemble “Klangforum Wien” at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She also received composing lessons from Ari Romppanen. She participated in numerous piano master classes, especially by Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Jacques Rouvier and Anna Malikova.