Takako Nishizaki BBS (born 14 April 1944) is a Japanese violinist.
She first studied with Broadus Erle at Yale University, and later with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard.
[2] In 1964, she was a runner-up in the Leventritt Competition, in which Itzhak Perlman won first prize.
[4] In 1969, she won first prize in the Juilliard Concerto Competition performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violist Nobuko Imai.
[citation needed] Nishizaki is married to the Naxos label owner Klaus Heymann, and teaches violin in Hong Kong,[5] where she was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2003 for her work in classical music and charity.