"Tokyo Kei University Wind Orchestra (TGWO)" organized around the department of music percussion department major instruments major is a historical brass band that has produced a large number of talented people in the brass band of Japan.
In 1935, the departure point of the student brass band established at the Tokyo Music School, the predecessor of the Tokyo College of Music Faculty of Music Department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts in 1935, was then supported by members of the Navy Army Music Corps at the time, but in 1949, In order to establish an artistic brass band that not only secures the player but also extends beyond military music, students, faculty members, graduates, etc. formed the Wind Instruments Research Division. Since 1951 at the Hibiya public hall conducive to the 1st brass band regular concert by commander Masato Yamamoto and it received favorable reviews.
As an annual activity, in addition to the early summer in-campus concert, autumn regular concert, they are doing business trip performances in various places. Since 2008 I have been participating in the bamboo music birthplace of Japan, Yokohama 's Bunkamichi Festival. (November 2, 2016)
In May 2015, it released the first album "Alfred Reed & Thomas Smith" from Brain Corp. In May 2016, they released the second "Philip Spark & Jan van der Roast".
This brass band has been familiar for many years "Mae koi brass", but recently, in view of the circumstances that "wind orchestra" is becoming common instead of the name "brass band". Also, in order to avoid the confusion caused by "brass" translation being "brass instrument", they changed the name from "Maebaku Brass" to "Tokyo Beauty Wind Orchestra" with the 77th regular concert in 2011.
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
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Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学 , Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Geidai (芸大 ) is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo, and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.
The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校 , Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 , Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō) , both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ((国立大学法人東京藝術大学 ) . On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."
The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.