Since her debut while still a graduate student at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, pianist Aki Takahashi has been at the center of new music performances at venues around the world. Well known for her classical musicianship, Takahashi is also lauded for her interpretations of contemporary works by composers such as John Cage, Isang Yun, and her brother Yuji Takahashi.

Her series of Erik Satie concerts in Tokyo during the 1970s triggered a Satie boom throughout Japan, and in 1980 she began a collaboration with American composer Morton Feldman that produced multiple landmark recordings.