Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Infobox musical artist
Name = Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団
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Origin = Nagoya, Japan
Genre = Classical
Occupation = Philharmonic Orchestra
Years_active = 1911-present
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URL = [http://www.tpo.or.jp/japanese/index.html Official Japanese Site]
[http://www.tpo.or.jp/english/index.html Official English Site]
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The nihongo|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.
The group performed the soundtrack to Hiroyuki Morita's 2002 Studio Ghibli movie The Cat Returns composed by Yuji Nomi and under the direction of Hiroshi Kumagai. The orchestra also did orchestral music for "Kingdom Hearts II".
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)
External links
* [http://www.tpo.or.jp/english/index.html Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra]
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