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“柴可夫斯基的小提琴协奏曲好像是专门为西崎崇子女士所谱写的。她演奏和录制的这首作品充满了权威性的演绎”
— CD Review曾如此评述
西崎崇子--日本著名小提琴演奏家。她的音乐会以及她所录制的大量的音乐唱片在
日本及整个亚洲深受欢迎。
她从小跟随父亲学习小提琴，并同时跟随日本铃木小提琴教学法创始人shinichi Suzuki先生学习。之后考入了美国朱利亚音乐学院，并获得Fritz Kreisler奖学金。1967年获得Leventritt 国际小提琴比赛第二名，仅次于帕尔曼先生。1969年获得朱利亚音乐学院小提琴协奏曲比赛第一名，之后她便开始了她的演奏生涯。足迹遍及美国、亚洲、欧洲。她灌制的唱片也取得了很好的成绩，她作为Naxo’s唱片公司的签约小提琴演奏家，录制了大量优秀的小提琴唱片。
至今为止，她已经灌制了超过100万张唱片；其中包括完整的莫扎特和贝多芬的小提琴钢琴奏鸣曲、格里格小提琴钢琴奏鸣曲、福兰克小提琴钢琴奏鸣曲以及门德尔松、柴可夫斯基、布鲁赫等人的小提琴协奏曲等。在她录制的唱片中，维瓦尔第的《四季》小提琴协奏曲名列全球古典唱片销量排行榜第八，其中她录制的中国小提琴协奏曲“梁祝”的销量更是突破三百万张。并一度成为最受欢迎的演奏中国小提琴作品的外国演奏家。
她也与很多著名的指挥家和钢琴家合作。与她合作的大师包括Andros’Schiff, Jeno Jardo, Wolf Harden, Alexander Zakin等等。在室内乐方面，她曾经与帕尔曼、朱克曼等合作同台演出。
现在她和先生定居香港，除了音乐她的最爱就是美食，她本人也做得一手好菜。
Takako Nishizaki
"It seems as if Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto has been waiting for Takako Nishizaki, one of Japan's finest violinists, to come along and record it. She performs this work with so much authority she seems to own it." CD Review
Takako Nishizaki is one of the world's most recorded and appreciated violinists, especially beloved in China and other parts of Southeast Asia through her many popular recordings and personal appearances in concerts and in the media. She also lies at the very heart of Naxos' rich recorded offering of music for the violin.
As a child, Takako Nishizaki studied with her father, Shinji, the co-founder of the Suzuki Method, and with Shinichi Suzuki himself. She was the first student to complete the now famous Suzuki course and was awarded a teacher's diploma at the tender age of nine. She started performing in public at the age of five and, before she was ten, had already played for artists such as Isaac Stern and Sir Malcolm Sargent as well as the French author Georges Duhamel, who wrote about the experience in his book Le Japan.
Subsequently, she studied with Broadus Earle and Hideo Saito (general musicianship) at the Toho Conservatory in Tokyo. In 1964 she went to the United States and first studied again with Broadus Earle, but at Yale, and then with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. Other teachers at the time included Louis Persinger and Aldo Parisot.
While at Juilliard, Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, established by the great violinist himself. Among her sponsors was Alice Tully. In 1967 she won Second Prize at the Leventritt International Competition (behind Itzhak Perlman) and in 1969 First Prize in the Juilliard Concerto Competition.
Her success at the Leventritt International Competition launched her concert career, initially only in the United States but subsequently internationally. Takako Nishizaki has performed and recorded with pianists such as András Schiff, JenöJandó, Wolf Harden, Alexander Zakin, Michael Ponti, Koon-Woo Paik and many others. She has also performed in chamber music ensembles with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Nobuko Imai, Ko Iwasaki and Maria Kliegel.
Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the best-selling violinists of all time. Her recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons was named the 8th best-selling classical CD ever with sales exceeding 900,000 copies to date. Her recordings of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by He and Chen sold more than three million copies in the People's Republic of China and throughout Southeast Asia. Takako Nishizaki has recorded more than 100 CDs in all, for a number of labels.
For Marco Polo, she has recorded a number of rare violin concertos by Anton Rubinstein, Louis Spohr, Cesar Cui, Charles de Beriot, Respighi and Joseph Joachim. For Naxos, she has recorded the complete works for violin and orchestra by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Tchaikovsky as well as the concertos of Brahms, Bruch and Mendelssohn. She has also recorded the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart and Beethoven as well as the sonatas of Grieg and Franck. Her latest recording for Naxos is the widely appreciated first volume of the Chevalier de St-Georges' violin concertos.
The Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms/Bruch and Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn recordings as well as her recording with Jeno Jando of the Beethoven Spring/Kreutzer Sonatas have became platinum discs with sales in excess of 100,000 copies each worldwide.
Since settling in Hong Kong in 1974, Takako Nishizaki has become the best-known and also best-selling performer of Chinese violin music. In addition to the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto she has performed and recorded concertos dedicated to her by Du Ming-Xin and Chen Gang and a large number of shorter pieces. She was awarded a Golden Violin by Pacific Music in Guangzhou in 1982 for her work in promoting Chinese music internationally and in 1998 received an award by the Chinese Musicians Association for her services to Chinese music. China Central Television has produced several feature programmes devoted to her life and career in Chinese music, most recently in 1999.
Takako Nishizaki lives in Hong Kong with her husband Klaus Heymann, the founder of Naxos, but she has a much loved second home in Auckland, New Zealand. She travels frequently and her favourite cities are, she says, Sydney, Vienna and San Francisco. Her greatest passion after music is good food and she is herself an excellent cook. She also enjoys red wine, with a preference for French or New World pinot noir.
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