is a private music school in

Toshima, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the eight central wards of the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Located in the northern area of Tokyo, Toshima is bordered by the wards of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita in the north and Nakano, Shinjuku, a ...

, Japan. It was founded as in

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, in 1907.

History

The college moved to Toshima in Tokyo in 1924 after the original campus was destroyed by the

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Some notable graduates

* Yuko Suzuhana - singer and leader of Wagakki Band *

Junichi Hirokami is a Japanese conductor. Born in Tokyo, Hirokami studied conducting, piano, musicology, and viola at the Tokyo College of Music. He won the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in September 1984 at age 26. One of ...

– conductor * Yoko Maria – singer *

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– composer *

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– composer

External links

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