Toho Gakuen School of Music

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]

Toho Gakuen School of Music

桐朋学園大学
Type	Private
Established	1948
President	Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
Principal	Ikuo Oshima
Location	Chōfu, Tokyo , Japan
Campus	Urban
Website	www.tohomusic.ac.jp

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Abe