degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Her teachers included Yutaka Ito, Ray Lev, and George Vásárhelyi.
[1] She has released numerous recordings and many 20th-century composers, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Peter Garland, Alvin Lucier, Isang Yun, Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Carl Stone, Maki Ishii, and Takehisa Kosugi, have written pieces for her.
She has also performed works by Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Tōru Takemitsu, and her brother, Yuji Takahashi.
On the occasion of the premiere of Triadic Memories, Morton Feldman, described her as follows: "Aki Takahashi is very different [from David Tudor or Roger Woodward].