Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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| Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra 東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団 | |
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| Founded | 1911 |
| Website | www.tpo.or.jp |
The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団 Tōkyō Firuhāmonī Kōkyō Gakudan) claims to be the oldest classical orchestra in Japan, having been founded in Nagoya in 1911. It moved to Tokyo in 1938 and has some 166 members as of 2005.
The orchestra plays at Orchard Hall, part of the Bunkamura (文化村) shopping and entertainment complex in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Conductors
- Special Artistic Advisor : Myung-Whun Chung
- Honorary Conductor : Ondrej Lenard
- Conductor Laureate : Tadaaki Otaka
- Conductor Laureate : Kazushi Ono
- Principal Guest Conductor : Vladimir Fedoseyev
- Principal Guest Conductor : Pascal Verrot
- Principal Guest Conductor : Janos Kavacs
- Permanent Conductor : Yoichiro Omachi
- Conductor : Kazumasa Watanabe
- Permanent Honorary Conductor : Kazuo Yamada
- (Sep. 2007)
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