AWARDS

 

1st Place, Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition 2016

Winner, DC Jazz Prix 2016

New Star Award, JazzJapan Album Of The Year 2016 (Album Title: Manhattan)

My Best Jazz Album 2013, Jazz Critique Magazine 2014 (Album Title: Feelin' Lucky)

Best Album 2011, Way Out West 2011 (Album Title: Introducing Takeshi Ohbayashi)

Best Performer, Audiences Favorite, Yokohama Jazz Promenade Competition 2009

3rd Place, Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition 2009

Semi Finalist, Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition 2007


Touring History

THE AMERICAS-  USA: Newport Jazz Festival, DC Jazz Festival, Winter Jazz Festival, Elkhart Jazz Festival, Spokane Jazz Festival, Beantown Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Saratoga Jazz Festival, Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, Red Clay Jazz Festival, Harlem Arts Festival, BRIC Jazz Festival, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Blue Note New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Small's, Smoke, Birdland, Mezzrow, Zinc Bar, Django, Shape Shifter Lab, Ginny's, Minton's, 5th Estate, Rockwood Music Hall, LPR, Droms, Nublu, Disney Hall, Yoshi's, UCSD The Loft, SF Jazz, Jimmy Mak's, Boxley's, Bakes Place, Twins Jazz, Side Door, Deer Head Inn, Berklee Peformance Center, Scholars, Wally's, Ryle's Jazz, The Velvet Note, Blue Note Hawaii     Canada: Montreal Jazz Festival, Artspring     Caribbean Islands: Barbados Jazz Festival, Martinique Jazz Festival    Panama: Panama Jazz Festival     Mexico: Teatro Isauro Martinez, Teatro Vivian Blumenthal, Auditorio de la Reforma, Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral, Teatro Ocampo, Centro Nacional de las Artes

EUROPE-  UK: London Jazz Festival, Lonnie Scott's, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, The Hare and The Hounds   France: Nancy Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Duc Des Lombards   Germany: Elb Jazz Festival, Enjoy Jazz Festival, Stimmen-Festival Rosenfelspark, Unterfahrt, Schloss, Rheingau Musik Festival, Kulturzelt, Mojo, Bi NUU, Club Gretchen, Stahlwerk, Tollhaus Austria: Jazz Fest Vien, Vienna Opera House Netherlands: Northsea Jazz Festival, Nijimegan International Jazz Festival, Scheltma, Lanteren Venster, Patronaat, Doornroosje, Sugar Factory, BIRD     Belgium: Brugge x Moods Festival, Het Depot Spain: Valencia Jazz Festival, Teatre BARTS, Granada Jazz Festival, Jazzpalencia, Lugo Jazz Festival, MadGarden Festival, Vitoria Jazz Festival, Canary Islands International Jazz Festival, Mas Sorrer Portugal: Teatro Micaelence, Casa de Musica Porto Switzerland: Cully Jazz Festival, St.Moritz Jazz Festival, Moods Italy: Biko Club, Bravo Caffe  Finland: April Jazz Festival, Tampere Jazz Festival   Sweden: Fasching Jazz Club   Norway: Oslo Jazz Festival, Stavanger Jazz Festival, Tveten Gaard,  Bulgaria: A to Z Jazz Festival, Sofia Live Club Hungary: Jazz Spring Festival Slovakia: One Day Jazz Festival  Estonia: Festival Jazzkaar   Latvia: Rigas Rytmi Festival   Lithuania: TAMSTA

ASIA, OCEANIA-  Japan: TokyoJazz, Setouchi Jazz Castle, Karuizawa Jazz Festival, Sapporo City Jazz, Nango Jazz Festival, Noto Monterey Jazz Festival, Imperial Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival Japan in Kawasaki, Fukuyoshi Jazz, Billboard Live Tokyo, Blue Note Tokyo, Body and Soul, Cyofu Green Hall, Musashino Swing hall, Pit Inn, Alfie, Naru, Sometime, No Bird, Bricks Hall, Motion Blue, Kamome, Teishaba, Cloud Nine, TRAX, Life Time, Hermit Dolphin, Mr. Kenny's, Star Eyes, Blue Note Nagoya, Kenny, Mr.Kelly's, Billboard Live Osaka, Quattro Osaka, Royal Horse, Neyagawa AruKas Hall, Left Alone, Layla, le club, Jin, Kofu Cotton Club, Tadakin G&MPC Niigata, Back Drop, Speak Low, Duo, Comin', Lush Life, Bird, Black and Tan, Reed and Rose Hall, Minami-kumin Culture Center Hall, Cafe SOHO, Porsche, Billie, Akarenga, St.Germain, Nakama Harmony Hall Fukuoka, Brick Block, Easel, Kyoto-Ya, Back Stage, New Combo, Syuto Pastral Hall Yamaguchi, Lexington Yamagata, Mingus, Basie, Live Spot Coo, Cube-Garden, Memanbetsu culture center, Nemuro Culture Center, Hakodate citizen Hall, Toyouracho Culture Center Hall, Obihiro Makubetsu Hall   China: Mao Livehouse, Union Church   Australia: Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Perth International Jazz Festival

AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST-  Qatar: Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha   Turkey: Salon IKSV   South Africa: Joy of Jazz Festival   Tunisia: Jazz at Carthage   Burkina Faso: FESPACO Ouagadougou, Bobo Durasso


Masterclass History

Spokane Jazz Festival, Martinique Jazz Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, Centro Nacional de las Artes México, Barratt Due Institute of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland School of Arts, Senzoku Gakuen Collage of Music, Seiko Jazz Camp, Koyo Conservatory of Music, Hiroshima University, Kyushu University, Waseda University, Keio University, Mt. Tahoma High School, Hiroshima Music Highschool, Brush Highschool


Musicians Takeshi has performed with

Trumpet: Takuya Kuroda, Darren Barrett, Benny Benack III, Dominick Farinacci, Christian Scott, Josh Evans, Billy Buss, Freddie Hendrix, Jason Palmer, Jelani Bauman, Phil Grenadier, Tiger Okoshi, Wayne Tucker,  Saxophone: Tim Green, Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Walter Blanding, Hailey Niswanger, Braxton Cook, Clay Lyons, Erena Terakubo, Grace Kelly, Jim Odgren, Pat Carroll, Craig Hill,  Jamaal Sawyer, Jesse Scheinin, John Ellis, Jonathan Greenstein, Kyle Nasser, Lucas Pino, Melissa Aldana, Tivon Pennicott, Tomoaki Baba Guitar: Tim Miller, Alex Wintz, Randy Runyon, Yotam SiIverstein, Andrew Burglass, Andrew Renfroe, Italo Kunha, Jeff Miles, Jeremy Most, Kenji Herbert, Mike Bono, Simon Yu, Tommy Holladay Bass: Ron Carter, Ruben Rogers, Solomon Dorsey, Ben Williams, Rashaan Carter, Alex Claffy, Yasushi Nakamura, Tamir Shmerling, Noam Wiesenberg, Aaron Liao, Aaron Darrell, Alex Toth, Chris Smith, Dave Santoro, Evan Marien, Josh Hari, Julian Smith, Katie Throux, Kyle Miles, Luques Curtis, Marty Jaffe, Mattew Rybiki, Max Moran, Neal Minor, Or Barket, Russell Hall, Sam JC Lee, Shin Sakaino, Yoshiki Yamada, Zack Brown Drums: Terri Lyne Carrington, Ulysses Owens Jr. Nate Smith, Adam Jackson, Mark Whitfield Jr., Adam Arruda, Anthony Toth, Bob Edinger, Corey Fonville, Dan Nadeau, Dan Pugach, Daniel Platzman, Hamir Atwal, Hans Schuman, Jimmy McBride, Joe Blaxx, Joe Dyson, John Davis, Joe Strasser, Jonathan Barber, Jonathan Pinson, Jovol Bell, Kush Abadey, Keita Ogawa, Kyle Poole, Lawrence Leathers, Tomohiro Mori, Takeo Moriyama, Zack Mullings Vocal: Jose James, Charles Turner III, Marie Davy, Alicia Olatuja, Alison Crockett, Brianna Thomas, Candice Hoyes, Charenee Wade, Gregory Generet, Hiromi Suda, Michael Mwenso, Shenel Johns, Violette De Vartillat