Complex sentence: After completing four years of music instruction at the Toho Gakuen College Of Music in her native Tokyo, including a composition course with Mutsuo Shishido, from 1983, Takano began to study in Germany with Brian Ferneyhough at the Freiburg National Music School.
Split into simpler sentences: After completing four years of music instruction at the Toho Gakuen College Of Music in her native Tokyo, including a composition course with Mutsuo Shishido. From 1983, Takano began to study in Germany with Brian Ferneyhough at the Freiburg National Music School.