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Tamagawa Academy Wind Orchestra [Elementary/Junior High School]

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Time:

Thursday
December, 15, 2016
06:15 PM - 07:30 PM

Location:

Skyline Ballroom W375E

Category

INTERNATIONAL BANDS

Conductor

Kazuhiko Tsuchiya

Performer Details

Performer Bio Synopsis

Tamagawa Academy was founded in 1929 by the educational reformist and publisher Kuniyoshi Obara. There he espoused “Zenjin”, or “whole person” liberal arts education, beginning with 111 students and 18 faculty. Today the Academy has more than 10,000 students taking from kindergarten to masters level studies on the 150-acre campus, through co-curricular programs utilizing varied effective methodologies. Music education has been a key pursuit from the Academy’s beginning, and the alma mater is sung daily at school. The Tamagawa Academy Lower Division Wind Orchestra has attended the All Japan Band Competition National Finals three times since 2001. The Wind Orchestra has performed at the International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium in Brisbane, Australia and has present concerts throughout that country. After incorporating a combined elementary, junior and senior high school system, the band program was split into a 5th through 9th grade section and an upper level division. In 2010, the younger band division again attended the All Japan Band Competition National Finals, earning a gold rating.

Conductor's Bio

Kazuhiko Tsuchiya majored in music education at Tamagawa University, and his first assignment was at Hasse Junior High School. There he established a band club, led the group to the All Japan Band Competition East Japan Division numerous times, receiving gold ratings in 1997 and 1998. He began at Tamagawa Academy’s Lower Division (Elementary/Jr. High) in 1999 and led that school’s Wind Orchestra to the All Japan Band Competition National Finals in 2001, 2002 and 2003, and its return to the National Finals in 2010 for a gold rating. His Wind Orchestra again qualified for National Finals in the fall of 2016. Tsuchiya studied music education and band training with Takeo Yamamoto, trombone with Yoshiko Hakoyama and Nobuo Okino, and conducting with Norichika Iimori. He is a board member of the Tokyo Junior High School Band Association and is an administrator of Tamagawa’s Junior High Division.

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