The 2024 Old West Organ Society Summer Series continues with a performance by Takeshi Kondo. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted in support of the Society.
Takeshi Kondo is a Japanese organist and composer/arranger. He is the hall organist at Yokohama Minatomirai Hall (Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture), a lecturer at the Department of Organ at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and at the Department of Composition at Kunitachi College of Music, where he actively teaches younger students. He is a member of the Japan Organist Association.
After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts with Faculty of Music in Department of Composition, he completed a Separate course (Organ) at the same university, and then completed a master's degree in Graduate School of Music (Organ) at the same university.
In 2006, he studied in Paris, France as an overseas trainee for Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists with the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
In addition to organ recitals and other solo performances in Japan and abroad, he has performed with ensembles and major orchestras in Japan, and collaborated with artists of other genres. As an organist and arranger, he has performed many of his own compositions in the organ and other genres, as well as commissioned works for concert halls and cultural foundations. He is also highly trusted by Japanese composers, and has premiered numerous Japanese organ works and ensemble works, all of which have been well received.
He served as the hall organist of the Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall (Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture) from its opening in July 2004 until the end of March 2018.
He is also the author of an organ instructional book, published in 2020, "Organ Techniques - Let's Talk on the Pipes! Let's Sing with the Pipes!" (Dowa-Shoin, Tokyo), for which he is the editor and author, and which has received very high acclaim from all quarters.