Takehiro Konoe, born in 1997 in Amsterdam, is a Japanese-Dutch violist. He began his musical studies on violin at the age of four with Professor Coosje Wijzenbeek, before continuing his education at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studied viola with Nobuko Imai and Francien Schatborn. He is currently a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Takehiro has earned recognition in numerous international competitions. He won third prize at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in both 2018 and 2023. He is the first prize winner of several other major competitions, including the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the 2022 Oscar Nedbal International Viola Competition, the 2020 Johannes Brahms Competition, and the 2017 Amsterdam National Viola Competition. In 2018, he was a finalist in the 4th Tokyo International Viola Competition, where he also was awarded the Suntory Foundation for the Arts Prize.

As a soloist, he has appeared with leading ensembles such as the BR Munich Radio Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, The Hague Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Rotterdam, Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra, and the chamber orchestra of Caserta in Naples. In addition to his solo work, Takehiro is an active chamber musician and a founding member of the Capybara Piano Quartet, with whom he won first prize at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.

Takehiro performs on a viola modeled after a Carlo Bergonzi instrument, made by luthier Roger Hargrave in 1991.