We are the community symphony orchestra who rehearses and performs in the Yokohama region, Japan.
Read about us and know more about us.
We are gradually preparing for the 18th annual concert, which is coming in Winter, 2023.
Performing date and place will be announced on this website when they are fixed.
*If you read Japanese, access also to our main site in Japanese.
date | Feb 11, 2023 |
place | Parthenon Tama |
conductor | Hiroyasu Matsumoto |
program | C. Franck / Symphony No.4 in A major Italian |
J. Brahms / Symphony No.4 in E-flat major Romantic |
date | Jan 9, 2022 |
place | National Olympics Memorial Youth Center Arts Building Large Hall |
conductor | Hiroyasu Matsumoto |
program | C. Franck / Symphony in D minor |
J. Brahms / Symphony No.4 in E minor |
date | April 10, 2021 |
place | Ota City Residents Hall Aprico |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | G. Rossini / The Barber of Seville | P. I. Tchaikovsky / The Sleeping Beauty |
V. Kalinnikov / Symphony No.1 in G minor |
date | Jan 18, 2020 |
place | MINATO MIRAI Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | L. V. Beethoven / Coriolan Overture | R. Wagner / Tristan und Isolde |
P. I. Tchaikovsky / Symphony No.6 in B minor |
date | Sep 23, 2019 |
place | Minami Public Hall |
conductor | Tomohiro Okada |
program | W. A. Mozart / The Marriage of Figaro Overture | F. Schubert / Symphony No.8 "Unfinished" B minor |
A. Dvorak / Symphony No.9 in E minor |
date | March 3, 2019 |
place | MINATO MIRAI Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | R. Wagner / Tannhauser Overture | A. Borodin / Symphony No.3 in A minor |
C. Saint-Saens / Symphony No.3 in C minor |
date | March 10, 2018 |
place | Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | H. Berlioz / Roman Carnival Overture | G. Bizet / Carmen |
L. V. Beethoven / Symphony No.6 in F major |
date | January 28, 2017 |
place | Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | A. P. Borodin / Polovtsian Dances |
S. Rachmaninoff / Symphony No. 2 in E minor |
date | February 20, 2016 |
place | MINATO MIRAI Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | Y. Abiko / Festive Overture |
F. Mendelssohn / Violin Concerto Violin: Rio Masumoto | |
P. I. Tchaikovsky / Symphony No. 4 in F minor |
date | March 28, 2015 |
place | MINATO MIRAI Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | R. Schumann / Symphony No. 1 in B flat major |
J. Brahms / Symphony No. 1 in C minor |
date | January 12, 2014 |
place | MINATO MIRAI Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | J. Brahms / Academic Festival Overture |
L. V. Beethoven / Symphony No.9 in D minor soprano: Yoshiko Shirakawa alto: Makiko Maeda tenor: Takao Asahara bariton: Naoyuki Takeda |
date | February 9, 2013 |
place | Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | A. P. Borodin / In the Steppes of Central Asia |
J. Brahms / Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn | |
J. Sibelius / Symphony No.2 in D major |
date | January 22, 2012 |
place | Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | L. V. Beethoven / Egmont Ouverture |
J. Sibelius / Karelia Suite Op.11 | |
A. Dvorak / Symphony No.9 in E minor |
date | February 26, 2011 |
place | Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | F. Mendelssohn / Die Fingalshole Ouverture Op.25 |
F. Schubert / Symphony No.8 "Unfinished" B minor | |
J. Brahms / Symphony No.2 in D major |
date | May 9, 2010 |
place | Tsuzuki Public Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | L. V. Beethoven / Symphony No. 5 in C minor |
P. I. Tchaikovsky / Symphony No. 5 in E minor |
date | February 28, 2009 |
place | Tsuzuki Public Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | J. Sibelius / Finlandia |
P. I. Tchaikovsky / Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture | |
A. Dvorak / Symphony No. 8 in G major |
date | March 15, 2008 |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
place | Izumi Public Hall |
program | R. Wagner / Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg |
G. Bizet / Carmen "Suite No. 2" | |
L. V. Beethoven / Symphony No. 7 in A major |
date | April 1, 2006 |
place | Kohoku Public Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | S. Rachmaninoff / Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor solo piano: Kayoko Yamamoto |
J. Brahms / Symphony No. 1 in C minor |
date | October 20, 2005 |
place | Tsuzuki Public Hall |
conductor | Yoshihiro Abiko |
program | W. A. Mozart / The Marriage of Figaro Overture |
P. I. Tchaikovsky / The Nutcracker Suite | |
W. A. Mozart / Symphony No. 40 in G minor |
Yokohama Green Orchestra serves only one annual concert in a year. We give our performance at such a turtle pace, so that we can relish a challenge of playing music together regardless of age, sex, and musical experience. We leave no one behind, and we together seek enjoyment of music.
While players' weekday jobs are in finance, accounting, engineering, et cetera, we rehearse in every other Sunday. Each rehearsal moves hall to hall in the Yokohama region. In addition, we occasionally make a field trip for the two days residential rehearsals with intense practice.
Besides those rehearsals, we congregate together; we have a BBQ party in summer, we sometimes play a bowling together, and many of us have pennies to spend at an ale-house after each rehearsal. Needless to say, a big family kind of atmosphere has grown among us.
When Yokohama Green Orchestra was founded in 2004, there were less than a dozen players. In a few years, we have become a solid community orchestra with a solid number of players. Since the establishment, we have been extremely fortunate to have our conductor, Yoshihiro Abiko, who teaches music theory and composition at Senzoku School of Music. He leads us in a way that everyone feels a surge of pleasure in playing music together.
Where we are going from here is a point of debate. Certainly, we will devote our full effort for the upcoming annual concert. We shall improve quality of music for our beloved audience. Yet in a long run, we will somehow like to contribute to the city of Yokohama where many of us are born and grow up.