"The above question of whether Mr. Kigawa pulled this difficult program off is: absolutely! And with an air of ease about it as well."

"Mr. Kigawa plays with a fundamental gentleness, even in intense passages, but he brings a precision to the relentless pricks and bristling repetitions in these pieces."

"He knows how to make this music sparkle"

"He knows how to make this music sparkle. He is equally adept at tapping Debussy’s sense of mystery..." - The New York Times

"The following Debussy (Sonata for Cello and Piano) gave more room for color, and the opening Prologue showed both players aiming for an ancient aura, a nobility."

"Kigawa bashed out dissonances and timbres at each end—the upper register was lightly prepared with painter’s tape—with such exact rhythms and purpose..."

"Mr. Kigawa plowed ahead, like an ancient-language linguist, successfully decoding the glyphs on a shard without knowing the language."

"Throughout Kigawa brought out all the details, the romantic arc and a sense of a journey."

"Mr. Kigawa played it with the fuidity that a jazz player brings to an extended solo"

"Coolly precise virtuosity."

"It’s a musical experiment. Who better to interpret it than Mr. Kigawa, with his endlessly curious mind?"

"Kigawa played its repeated note gestures with fleet-fingered dexterity..."

"Taka's playing was marvelous right from the murmuring start of the piece."

Taka Kigawa world-premiered Yusef Lareef's last solo piano piece, Autophysiopsychic, on April 2013 at Roulette in New York City.

"The pianist Taka Kigawa gave an electrifying traversal of all 18 Ligeti Études, a kaleidoscopic set of works that demands the unrelenting energy and precision that are Mr. Kigawa’s specialties."

"Mr. Kigawa led the orchestra a merry chase, especially in the Stravinsky-like finale."

"The three together played together as a coherent, fluently collaborative trio, subtly attuned to each other’s pacing and breathing..."