Toho Gakuen School of Music
Private music school in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan
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Toho Gakuen School of Music (桐朋学園大学, Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku) is a private music school in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.[1][2]
桐朋学園大学 | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1948 |
| President | Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi |
| Principal | Ikuo Oshima |
| Location | , Japan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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History
Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Ichigaya (Tokyo) as the Music School for Children,[3] and two years later moved to Sengawa (current address at Wakabacyo, Chōfu-shi, Tokyo) and opened the Toho High School of Music, to provide quality musical education to teenage girls. Nov.1954 moved to Sengawa (Wakabacyo, Chōfu-shi, Tokyo). 1955 saw the establishment of the Junior College and in 1961 the Junior College becomes the Toho Gakuen College Music Department.[4] The College of Music was a pioneer in offering university-level degrees in music in Japan. In 1995 the Toho Orchestra Academy was established in Toyama and in 1999 opened the Toho Gakuen Graduate School, which offers postgraduate degrees.[1]
Courses
Through its high school, college and graduate school, Toho Gakuen offers courses from preparatory diplomas to master's degrees in all orchestral instruments, piano, composition, conducting and musicology.[5]
Notable staff members
- Hiroshi Wakasugi, conductor[6]
- Hitomi Kaneko, composer[7]
Notable alumni
- Seiji Ozawa, conductor[8]
- Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor,[9]
- Tadaaki Otaka, conductor[10]
- Hiroko Nakamura, pianist[11]
- Tōru Yasunaga, violinist[12]
- Koichiro Harada, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet[13]
- Sadao Harada, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet[13]
- Kazuhide Isomura, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet[13]
- Yoshiko Nakura, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet[13]
- Akiko Suwanai, violinist[14]
- Nobuko Imai, violist[15]
- Mayuko Kamio, violinist[16]
- František Brikcius, cellist[17]
- David Currie, conductor[18]
- Aimi Kobayashi, pianist [19]
- Kokia, singer, composer[20]
- Yukie Nishimura, pianist[21]
- Yoko Nozaki, pianist[22]
- Eiji Oue, conductor.[23]
- Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor[24]
- Yūji Takahashi, composer, arranger, and pianist[25]
- Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, cellist and later President of Toho Gakuen School of Music
- Keiko Abe, marimbist, composer, educator