Annie Takeuchi

Annie Takeuchi was classically trained in music, starting at the age of 3, at the Yamaha Music School in San Francisco. She went on to study with Stewart Brady, who had been her mother’s piano teacher, and continued her studies at Yale University and then at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.

She has never attempted to make a living as a musician, but rather worked as a marketing strategy consultant, which enabled her to afford her own piano, but did not afford her much time to play it. Eventually she started performing sacred music (both contemporary and traditional), and from there branched into popular music from the 30’s and 40’s, including Broadway music and standards from the American Songbook, with which she entertains senior audiences.

She is now the music director at her church (Locust Corner Community Church, in Pierce Township, Ohio), and performs at a variety of senior centers, long-term care facilities and retirement villages. She  also plays for and directs the choir at the Anderson Township Senior Center (Ohio) and creates arrangements and directs the Bell Chime choir there. Other groups she participates in in Valley Interfaith Community Choir, the One Voice choir, and the MLK Chorale. She also plays old-time country/gospel music with friends (in a group named “Various Artists”), and with the Gaslight Theater House Band (a “big band”).

And, just to round things out, she teaches “Better Balance, Safer You” – a balance and self-defense class – at the Anderson Township Senior Center and is a passionate supporter and volunteer for the League for Animal Welfare in Batavia, Ohio.