Toho Gakuen School of Music (桐朋学園大学) 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

Notable alumni