is a private music school 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, 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. 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.
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.
Notable staff members Hiroshi Wakasugi, conductor Hitomi Kaneko, composer
Notable alumni
Seiji Ozawa, conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor, Tadaaki Otaka, conductor Hiroko Nakamura, 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 Aimi Kobayashi, pianist Kokia, singer, composer Yukie Nishimura, pianist Yoko Nozaki, pianist Eiji Oue, conductor. Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor Yūji Takahashi, composer, arranger, and pianist
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, cellist and later President of Toho Gakuen School of Music Keiko Abe, marimbist, composer, educator
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