is a private music school and university in

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, Japan. Offering a range of undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral degree programs, the college was originally named as the in

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, in 1907.

History

The college moved to

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in 1924 after the original campus was destroyed by the

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. The college changed its name to Tokyo College of Music in 1969. A second modern campus and performance facility was opened in 2019 in Kamimeguro,

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Some notable graduates

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- singer and leader of Wagakki Band *

Junichi Hirokami is a Japanese conductor. Born in Tokyo, Hirokami studied conducting, piano, musicology, and viola at the Tokyo College of Music. He won the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in September 1984 at age 26. One of ...

– conductor *

Mahito Yokota is a Japanese music composer and orchestrator who works for the video game development company Nintendo. He is most known for his collaborations with Koji Kondo in the ''Super Mario Galaxy is a 2007 platform game developed and published by ...

– composer *

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– composer *

Yasunori Nishiki is a Japanese composer, best known for his work on the ''Octopath Traveler'' video game series. He formerly worked for Konami and has produced soundtracks for video games and anime. Biography Nishiki was born on July 10, 1985, in Kanagawa Prefe ...

– composer *

Yugo Kanno is a Japanese composer and musician known for his work on many television dramas, anime series, and movies. Biography Kanno was born in Saitama, Japan. He attended junior high school in Kawagoe before later moving to Takanezawa for universit ...

– composer and musician *

Riyoko Ikeda is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group by some critics, journalists, and academics, although her inclusion has been debated due to a focus more on epic stories than the internal psychology of those mangaka. ...

- opera singer and manga artist

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