Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo

Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo (KST) was founded as the resident chamber orchestra of Kioi Hall in 1995, and made its debut on April that year, simultaneously with the opening of Kioi Hall.

With three leaders, Kazuki Sawa, Yasushi Toyoshima, and Koichiro Harada, the orchestra comprises 46 top-class artists. The musical advisor and chief conductor of the KST, Tadaaki Otaka (Laurel honored conductor from September 2003) has brought KST to being one of the leading chamber orchestras of Japan. The KST holds ten subscription concerts with five programs at Kioi Hall a year.

KST have performed in such venues as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Musikverein in Vienna. The artists with whom KST has worked in the past include Trevor Pinnock, Mario Brunello, Gerhard Bosse, Christoph Poppen, Hartmut Haenchen, Heinrich Schiff, Augustein Dumay, Steven Isserlis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Alicia de Larrocha, and Emmanuel Pahud.