ORCHESTRA PROFILE
In 2011, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 100th anniversary as Japan’s first symphony orchestra. With about 160 musicians, TPO performs both symphonies and operas regularly. TPO is proud to have appointed Maestro Myung-Whun Chung, who has been conducting TPO since 2001, as Honorary Music Director, Maestro Andrea Battistoni as Chief Conductor and Maestro Mikhail Pletnev as Special Guest Conductor.
TPO has established its world-class reputation through its subscription concert series, regular opera and ballet assignments at the New National Theatre, and a full, ever in-demand agenda around Japan and the world, including broadcasting with NHK Broadcasting Corporation, various educational programs, and tours abroad. In March, 2014, TPO became a global sensation in its centennial world tour of six major cities: New York, Madrid, Paris, London, Singapore and Bangkok. In December 2015, TPO held Beethoven’s 9th symphony concerts in Seoul and Tokyo with Mastro Myung-Whun Chung, with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra combined into one orchestra. TPO has partnerships with Bunkamura Orchard Hall, the Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo, Chiba City, Karuizawa Cho in Nagano and Nagaoka City in Niigata.
MUSICIANS
◎Principal ○Assistant Principal ☆Vorspieler
Concertmaster
- Kaoru Kondo
- Akihiro Miura
- Masanobu Yoda
Assistant concertmaster
- Natsumi Tsuboi
First Violin
- Saori Koike☆
- Namo Sakakibara☆
- Yoshiko Hiratsuka☆
- Yoshiyuki Asami
- Eri Urata
- Keiko Kagesawa
- Hikaru Kato
- Tomomi Ganchiku
- Masaaki Sakaguchi
- Saku Suzuki
- Akino Takada
- Hideko Tanaka
- Mitsuko Tochimoto
- Miki Nakazawa
- Hiroko Nakamaru
- Ikumi Hirosawa
- Satoko Hirota
- Misako Fujise
- Tomoko Matsuda
Second Violin
- Masayoshi Fujimura◎
- Michi Mizutori◎
- Masayuki Miyakawa◎
- Mayuko Takase☆
- Chigusa Ishihara
- Machiko Idehara
- Maho Irie
- Mizuka Iwata
- Kei Ota
- Rie Kasai
- Mieko Sato
- Nahoko Shigeoka
- Yohta Nakamura
- Yuuka Hondo
- Nonoka Matsuoka
- Yuko Yamashiro
- Tomoko Yoshida
- Akiko Yoshinaga
- Suwako Wakai
- Minako Watanabe
Viola
- Koichi Komine ◎
- Sachiko Suda ◎
- Daisuke Kato○
- Yui Imagawa☆
- Aya Sugiura☆
- Chie Ito
- Ayako Okayasu
- Mariko Sowa
- Eiko Takahashi
- Keisuke Nakajima
- Tazuko Hirumi
- Atsuko Furuno
- Naoko Murakami
- Masaharu Morita
Cello
- Hiroyuki Kanaki◎
- Makoto Hattori◎
- Tatsuki Watanabe◎
- Misaki Kurokawa☆
- Masashi Korai☆
- Go Ishikawa
- Mao Ouchi
- Tetsu Ota
- Takehide Kikuchi
- Yoshinobu Sasaki
- Yoko Hasegawa
- Fuzuki Watanabe
Contrabass
- Yumeji Kataoka◎
- Iwahisa Kuroki◎
- Shuichiro Endo
- Kayano Ogasawara
- Yoshiteru Okamoto
- Ryota Oguri
- Maya Kumagai
- Masahiko Sugawara
- Tomomi Tanabe
- Motomasa Nakamura
Flute
- Yuya Kanda◎
- Kazushi Saito◎
- Yanami Sakahashi
- Chikara Sugano
Oboe
- Bunkichi Arakawa◎
- Masashi Satake◎
- Madoka Yoshino◎
- Ayaka Okamura
- Maki Sugimoto
- Sayaka Wakabayashi
Clarinet
- Alessandro Beverari ◎
- Fumie Kuroo
- Sakura Torigata
- Naoki Hayashi
Bassoon
- Akari Kono ◎
- Choe Young Jin ◎
- Atsuko Hirohata ◎
- Hiromi Imura
- Yumi Kikkawa
- Junichi Mori
Horn
- Yusuke Saito◎
- Takanori Takahashi◎
- Yasuhiko Isobe
- Shu Ohigashi
- Hisaki Ogura
- Shunsuke Kimura
- Toshiki Sato
- Eiko Taba
- Satoshi Tsukada
- Maki Toyoda
- Yuya Nishikawa
- Kenji Yamanouchi
Trumpet
- Shuichi Kawata◎
- Ryo Noda◎
- Toshihiro Furuta◎
- Masahiko Sugiyama
- Naoya Nakajima
- Ayako Minowa
Trombone
- Himeko Tsuji◎
- Izumi Nakanishi◎
- Hiroshi Ishikawa
- Masaaki Goka
- Keisuke Fujita
- Masahiro Yamauchi
Tuba
- Tetsuya Otsuka
- Shin Ogino
Timpani & Percussion
- Ryoto Okabe ◎
- Takuro Shiota ◎
- Takanori Akita
- Tatsushi Kimura
- Kaori Takaba
- Yuki Nakamura
- Kikuko Nawata
- Yuko Funasako
- Harumi Furuya
Harp
- Ayano Kaji
- Midori Tajima
Hanorary Members
- Eisaku Ando
- Toshimi Ikeda
- Masahiro Itoi
- Akira Imai
- Kazuhiko Iryo
- Tatsuhiko Iwasaki
- Kana Ueki
- Shingyo Ueno
- Masayoshi Ubukata
- Kiyoshi Oganeku
- Masao Osawa
- Ko Owada
- Jun Okabe
- Atsuko Ogure
- Satoko Oyama
- Toshiaki Kaizawa
- Akihiro Kato
- Hirofumi Kato
- Mayumi Kanasaki
- Yoji Kawahito
- Tomohiro Kimura
- Shozo Kurokawa
- Makoto Kurosawa
- Keiko Kono
- Tsutomu Kondo
- Yoshio Konno
- Takumi Saito
- Kazuko Sakaguchi
- Masao Saga
- Mihoko Saga
- Hiroko Sakuragi
- Midori Sasa
- Hitoshi Sasaki
- Kyoichi Sano
- Masako Shimizu
- Katsuyasu Seo
- Noriko Takaiwa
- Kazuhiko Takano
- Chiyoko Takamura
- Makoto Takebayashi
- Yoko Takebayashi
- Chie Tanaka
- Takeo Tamura
- Yoshimi Tsuda
- Yasuki Tosaka
- Yojiro Nagaike
- Shin Nagaoka
- Joji Nagakura
- Kiyoe Nitta
- Nobuo Nitta
- Jun Ninomiya
- Keinosuke Nonaka
- Kazuko Hatanaka
- Masako Hanashiro
- Tadao Fukumura
- Isao Fujiwara
- Jun Furuno
- Katsumi Hosokawa
- Hiroshi Hosobora
- Utako Honda
- Kumiko Matsuzawa
- Sadao Minato
- Mayumi Miyahara
- Fusako Yamaya
- Hiroyoshi Yoshida
- Koki Yonekura
- Shunsuke Wakiya
Staff
Chief Executive Officer
- Kyoichi Ishimaru
Secretary-General
- Masami Kudo
Concert Management
- Yuichi Ichikawa
- Iori Iwasaki
- Rika Okubo
- Erina Otani
- Wakana Sato
- Makiko Murao
- Yui Yoshida
Public Relations
- Yui Ito
- Kotono Kanomata
- Kazuko Chigi
- Norifumi Futaki
- Tomoko Hoshino
- Hisae Matsui
- Hitomi Yasuda
Stage Management
- Hiroshi Inaoka
- Atsushi Ota
- Hiroshi Furuya
Librarian
- Motoki Takeda
General Affairs
- Akio Kawahara
- Mie Suzuki