is a
private music school
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
in
Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.
History
Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Ichigaya (Tokyo) as the Music School for Children, and two years later moved to Sengawa (current address at Wakabacyo, Chofushi, Tokyo) and opened the Toho High School of Music, to provide quality musical education to teenage girls. Nov.1954 moved to Sengawa (Wakabacyo, Chofu-shi, Tokyo). 1955 saw the establishment of the Junior College and in 1961 the Junior College becomes the Toho Gakuen College Music Department. 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.
Studies
Through its high school, college and graduate school, Toho Gakuen offers studies from preparatory diplomas to master's degrees in all orchestral instruments,
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
,
composition
Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
*Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
*Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...
,
conducting and
musicology.
Notable staff members
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Hiroshi Wakasugi
was a Japanese orchestra conductor. He premiered many of the major Western operas in Japan, and was honoured with many awards for cultural achievement. He was best known for conducting works by German composers such as Richard Wagner, Anton Br ...
, conductor
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Hitomi Kaneko
Hitomi Kaneko (金子 仁美) is a female Japanese classical music composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. ...
, composer
Notable alumni
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Seiji Ozawa, conductor
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Kazuyoshi Akiyama
is a Japanese conductor.
Biography
Born into a musical family, he studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but was fascinated by the conducting activities of a fellow student, Seiji Ozawa. He decided to study conducting with Hideo S ...
, conductor,
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Tadaaki Otaka
is a Japanese conductor.
Biography
Otaka studied composition, theory, and French horn, at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He was subsequently a conducting student of Hideo Saito.
Otaka has served as conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orch ...
, conductor
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Hiroko Nakamura
was a Japanese pianist.
Born Hiroko Fukuda in Yamanashi, she grew up in Tokyo. She began to study piano at the age of 3 at Toho Gakuen School of Music under Aiko Iguchi. In 1959, whilst a student at Chutobu Junior High School, she won first ...
, pianist
* Tōru Yasunaga, violinist
* Koichiro Harada, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet
* Sadao Harada, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet
* Kazuhide Isomura, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet
* Yoshiko Nakura, founding member of the Tokyo String Quartet
* Akiko Suwanai, violinist
* Nobuko Imai, violist
* Mayuko Kamio, violinist
* František Brikcius, cellist
* David Currie (conductor), David Currie, conductor
* Aimi Kobayashi, pianist
* Kokia (singer), Kokia, singer, composer
* Yukie Nishimura, pianist
* Yoko Nozaki, pianist
* Eiji Oue, conductor.
* Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor
* Yūji Takahashi, composer, arranger, and pianist
References
External links
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Toho Gakuen School of Music,
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Educational institutions established in 1961
Universities and colleges in Tokyo
1961 establishments in Japan
Chōfu, Tokyo