Chisato Taniguchi
Born in Japan, Chisato Taniguchi began playing music at the age of two and the piano the following year. After graduating from the Toho-Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo with Yumiko Meguri, the Japanese cultural foundation « Meiji Yasuda » awarded her a scholarship in 2021 to continue her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where she completed her master’s degree in piano in Florent Boffard’s class. Selected as a scholarship student for the years 2023 and 2024 by the Japanese music foundation « Rohm », she is currently studying for a master’s degree in chamber music with Claire Désert, as well as the artist diploma of contemporary repertoire (Ensemble Next). She also takes lessons with Sébastien Vichard and has taken part in masterclasses with Jean-Claude Pennetier, Thomas Hell, Michel Dalberto, Till Fellner and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
She has been invited to major festivals such as the International Piano Festival la Roque d’Anthéron in France, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg, Germany and La Folle Journée de Tokyo 2023, where she played with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. In the spring of 2023, she stayed at Henri Dutilleux’s house as artist-in-residence following the Orléans International Piano Competition, where she won second prize and the « Henri Dutilleux – Geneviève Joy Residence » prize in 2022, giving several recitals and courses in the region.
She performs in concert, sharing her passion for the contemporary repertoire and combining it with works from the classical repertoire. For several years now, she has been promoting the work of Atsuhiko Gondai, a contemporary Japanese composer, with whom she is collaborating on a monographic concert and its recording (planned for 2025).