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15th February, 2000
Ehrbar Hall (Vienna)
Masao Takahashi, piano
When I was a medical student, I challenged the Fourteenth International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition(2000).
I was away from the medical school and I started on music study with Prof.Joo Ann Koh in Vienna, it was in February 1999. I recorded Chopin’s five works just for an application for Chopin Competition, only one year later. It was my long dream to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto op.11 at Warsaw, but I was not allowed to take part in the Chopin Competition. My long -cherished dream was shattered.
The following year, I was awarded the International Prize “DIPLOMA D’ONORE” at the 11th A.M.A.CALABRIA International Piano Competition in Italy. Maestro François-Joël Thiollier, the President of the jury of the competition, was highly impressed by my musical talent and he expected me to become a successful international pianist in the future.
But three months later, I was forced to return to Akita University School of Medicine(Japan) because I could not afford the costs of my studies in Vienna.
In March 2004 I was conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine.
In life, there are some things that are not available to us, no matter how strongly we wish for them ourselves. For me, I think it was music…
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