Rie Watanabe

Rie Watanabe (b. 1979) is a Japanese-German percussionist from Hokkaido, who currently lives in Cologne and Karlsruhe. In 1999, Watanabe began her percussion studies with Makoto Aruga, Michiko Takahashi, Takafumi Fujimoto and Mariko Okada at the Tokyo National University Of Fine Arts And Music. She attended Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2011, taking lessons from Isao Nakamura.