About Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo

Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo
(former Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo)

With the opening of Kioi Hall in 1995, the Orchestra was founded as the Orchestra in Residence. It is renowned for its world-class soloists, chamber musicians, as well as its visiting principal musicians from leading orchestras both in Japan and abroad.
The Orchestra is unique in that rehearsals are conducted in the Hall itself, thereby enabling the full potential of the Orchestra to be continually developed and refined. As a result, the resident Orchestra has developed its own highly distinctive sound.
Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo runs 5 or 4 programs every year for its subscription series, with 2 performances for each program. The Orchestra has also performed internationally, and has been acclaimed for its concerts in Europe (2000, 2005), South Korea (2009, 2010) and United States (2012). Recently the Orchestra was invited to perform in prestigious music festivals in Japan, notably the Music Festival Argerich’s Meeting Point in Beppu in 2015 and 2016 as well as the Spring Festival in Tokyo in 2016.
In April 2017, the Orchestra’s name changed to “Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo” (KCO) and got Rainer Honeck on board as 2nd Principal Conductor.
Since April 2022, Trevor Pinnock joined the KCO as its 3rd Principal Conductor.

Members

Honorary Conductor Laureate
Tadaaki Otaka

Conductor Emeritus
Rainer Honeck

Principal Conductor
Trevor Pinnock

Artist Laureate
Yasunori Kawahara/Junji Suganuma/Mineo Sugiki

Concertmasters

Natsumi Tamai

Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts

Eiichi Chijiiwa

Associate Concertmaster of Orchestre de Paris

Anton Barakhovsky

1st Concertmaster of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Violin

Shizuka Inoue

Soloist, Chamber Musician

Mutsuko Imai

Chamber Musician

Ami Oike

Soloist, Amity Quartet, Zephyrus Piano Quintet

Rintaro Omiya

Principal of NHK Symphony Orchestra

Yukiko Ogawa

Assistant Principal of Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuko Kageyama

Chamber Musician

Izumi Kamata

Chamber Musician

Karen Kido

Soloist, Chamber Musician, La Luce String Octet, Edo Duo

Yuki Tashiro

Principal of GöteborgsOperans Orkester

Junko Chiba

Soloist, Chamber Musician

Yukiko Teraoka

Chamber Musician

Nao Tohara

Concertmaster of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Chiyoko Noguchi

Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts, Quartet Platinum, Ensemble Cordier, Ensemble Nomad

Satoshi Morioka

Concertmaster of Kobe City Chamber Orchestra & Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra

Takako Yamasaki

Associate professor of
Tokyo University of the Arts,
Quartet Anima

Chizuru Yamamoto

Tokyo Sinfonietta,
Chamber Musician

Hazuki Yamamoto

Principal of Gunma Symphony Orchestra

Viola

Yuko Ando

Principal of Geidai Philharmonia Orchestra

Toshihiko Ichitsubo

Sawa Quartet, Prof. of Tokyo University of the Arts

Kei Ito

Principal of Sinfonia Lahti

Koichi Komine

Principal of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansai String Quartet

Tomomi Shinozaki

Principal of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Manabu Suzuki

Solo Principal of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Chikako Nakamura

Chamber Musician

Shoko Mabuchi

Virtus Quartet

Kyoko Moriguchi

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Cello

Yu Ito

AOI Trio, Principal of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Hajime Otomo

Quartet Excelsior, Guest Principal of Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

Tomoya Kikuchi

Principal of Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Quartet Platinum

Kenji Nakagi

ex-Principal of Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Associate prof. of Tokyo University of the Arts

Yasuo Maruyama

Virtus Quartet

Contrabass

Hiroshi Ikematsu

ex-Principal of NHK Symphony Orchestra & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Principal of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Prof. of Tokyo University of the Arts