Mayuko Takine (collaborating artist)

Mayuko Takine, pianist, was born in 1978 in Ehime, Japan. She studied at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts-VSMU (prof. T. Franová) and then in Vienna at the Vienna Music Academy with Prof. D. Adam (scholarship from E. Charlie). She has been awarded the Grand Prix at the Shikoku Piano Competition, First Prize at the Bratislava Academy Piano Competition and First Prize at the Vienna Bosendorfer Piano Competition, etc. She has played the Piano Concerto (Ravel:G-dur) with the Kosice Philharmonic Orchestra and has been a jury member for the International Piano Competition in Kosice.