15 Notable alumni of
Toho Gakuen School of Music
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The Toho Gakuen School of Music is 552nd in the world, 106th in Asia, and 42nd in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from the Toho Gakuen School of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Seiji Ozawa
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- music directormusicianconductor
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Seiji Ozawa was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years. After conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert in 2002, he was director of the Vienna State Opera until 2010. In Japan, he founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, their festival in 1992, and the Tokyo Opera Nomori in 2005.
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Sumi Shimamoto
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- actorseiyū
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Sumi Koshikawa, known professionally as Sumi Shimamoto (島本 須美, Shimamoto Sumi), is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator of film, anime and video games. She has voice acted in Hayao Miyazaki's movies Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Castle of Cagliostro, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke.
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Kokia
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- composersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
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Akiko Yoshida is a Japanese singer and songwriter performing under the stage name Kokia (styled KOKIA). Her most well known songs are "Arigatō..." (ありがとう..., Thank You) (which reached number 2 in Hong Kong when it was covered by Sammi Cheng) and "The Power of Smile" (which topped at No. 8 in the singles chart). She is also recognized for her numerous contributions to anime/game soundtracks, the most notable being "Ai no Melody/Chōwa Oto (With Reflection)" for the film Origin: Spirits of the Past, "Follow the Nightingale" for the game Tales of Innocence, "Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi" for the anime Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino, "Dance of the Spirits" for the anime “The Ancient Magus' Bride” and "For Little Tail" for the game Tail Concerto.
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Hiroko Nakamura
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- composerpianistessayist
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Hiroko Nakamura was a Japanese pianist.
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Yukie Nishimura
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- composerpianist
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Yukie Nishimura is a prolific Japanese pianist and composer. Hailed as a musician of "New Age Music", her piano style is light easy listening and her works are sometimes heard on television in Japan, even with her appearance in television commercials and fashion magazines thanks to her stunning looks. She has a following in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.
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Chihiro Yamanaka
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- jazz musicianuniversity teacherpianist
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Chihiro Yamanaka is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture. As of 2012, she was based in New York City. She has had more than a dozen albums as a leader, most of them being released by Verve Records.
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Mayuko Kamio
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- violinist
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Mayuko Kamio is a Japanese violinist. She won the First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2000, and was the youngest prize winner at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 1998.
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Kazuyoshi Akiyama
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- conductor
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Kazuyoshi Akiyama was a Japanese conductor who held conducting posts of symphony orchestras in Japan, Canada and the U.S., such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra from 1964 for life, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra from 1972 to 1985, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1993, and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra from 1998. Akiyama conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the Japanese premieres of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, John Adams's El Niño and Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, among others.
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Nobuko Imai
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- violistconcertmasteruniversity teacher
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Nobuko Imai, is a renowned Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument.
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Karen Tanaka
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- composerpianistmusic educator
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Karen Tanaka is a Japanese composer.
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Airi Suzuki
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- violinistmusician
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Airi Suzuki is a Japanese violinist.
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Ryō Terakado
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- musicianconcertmasterconductorviolinist
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Ryo Terakado is a Japanese violinist and conductor who specializes in historically informed performance. He also plays the viola, viola d'amore and violoncello da spalla. He has been teaching at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Toho Gakuen School of Music.
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Chon Wolson
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- opera singer
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Chon Wolson is a Korean soprano opera singer with the Tokyo-based Nikikai Opera Company. Born in Tokyo, she is a second-generation Korean.
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Mari Takano
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- composerpianist
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Mari Takano is a Japanese composer, pianist, essayist, and teacher. Takano's work, and musical voice, has been recognized as among the most distinctive to be found amid Japanese composers of the "post-Takemitsu generation".
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František Brikcius
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- film directorfilm editorcellist
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František Brikcius is a Czech cellist.
