Members (as of January 31, 2026)

Conductors
Fabio Luisi (chief conductor)
Charles Dutoit (honorary music director)
Herbert Blomstedt (honorary conductor laureate)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor laureate)
Paavo Jarvi (honorary conductor)
Tadaaki Otaka
Tatsuya Shimono

Concertmaster
Sunao Goko (co-concertmaster)
Kota Nagahara (co-concertmaster)
Yosuke Kawasaki [川崎洋介] (guest concertmaster)

1st Violin
Kyoko Une [宇根 京子] (co-assistant concertmaster)
Ryota Kuratomi (co-assistant concertmaster)
Haruhiko Mimata (co-assistant concertmaster)
Tsutomu Yamagishi (co-assistant concertmaster)
Koichi Yokomizo (co-assistant concertmaster)
Shirabe Aoki [青木 調]
Ayumu Iizuka
Yuki Oshika [大鹿 由希]
Ko Goto [後藤 康]
Tamaki Kobayashi [小林 玉紀]
Toshihiro Takai
Taiga Tojo [東條 太河]
Yuki Naoi
Yumiko Nakamura [中村 弓子]
Takao Furihata
Hiroyuki Matsuda
Nana Miyagawa [宮川 奈々]

2nd Violin
Rintaro Omiya (co-principal)
Masahiro Morita (co-principal)
Keiko Shimada [嶋田 慶子] (assistant principal)
Atsushi Shirai [白井 篤] (co-assistant principal)
Akiko Tanaka [田中 晶子] (co-assistant principal)
Masamichi Yokoshima (co-assistant principal)
Maiko Saito [齋藤 麻衣子]
Kirara Tsuboi [坪井 きらら]
Yosuke Niwa
Kazuhiko Hirano [平野 一彦]
Yoko Funaki [船木 陽子]
Kenji Matano [俣野 賢仁]
Ryuto Murao
Masaya Yazu [矢津 将也]
Yoshikazu Yamada [山田 慶一]
Yuka Yoneda [米田 有花]

Violin (contractor)
Reika Shimizu [清水 伶香]
Yui Yuhara

Viola
Ryo Sasaki [佐々木 亮] (co-principal)
Junichiro Murakami [村上 淳一郎] (co-principal)
Gentaro Sakaguchi (co-acting principal)
Shotaro Nakamura (co-acting principal)
Hironori Nakamura (co-assistant principal)
Ryo Muramatsu (co-assistant principal)
Yuya Minorikawa (inspector)
Satoshi Ono [小野 聡]
Shigetaka Obata [小畠 茂隆]
Mayumi Taniguchi
Hiroto Tobisawa
Naoyuki Matsui
Rachel Yui Mikuni
Eri Kuribayashi (contractor)

Cello
Rei Tsujimoto [辻󠄀本 玲] (co-principal)
Ryoichi Fujimori (co-principal)
Miho Naka [中 実穂] (co-assistant principal)
Hiroya Ichi [市 寛也]
Yukinori Kobatake
Ken'ichi Nishiyama [西山 健一]
Shunsuke Fujimura [藤村 俊介]
Koichi Fujimori [藤森 洸一]
Hiroshi Miyasaka
Yuki Murai
Yusuke Yabe [矢部 優典]
Shunsuke Yamanouchi
Masako Watanabe [渡邊 方子]

Contrabass
Shu Yoshida (principal)
Masanori Ichikawa [市川 雅典] (co-assistant principal)
Jun Okamoto [岡本 潤] (co-assistant principal)
Shinji Nishiyama (co-assistant principal)
Eiji Inagawa [稻川 永示]
Takashi Konno
Tatsuro Honma [本間 達朗]
Yoko Yanai [矢内 陽子]

Flute
Masayuki Kai (co-principal)
Hiroaki Kanda [神田 寛明] (co-principal)
Junji Nakamura (inspector)
Maho Kajikawa

Oboe
Yumi Yoshimura (principal)
Shoko Ikeda
Izumi Tsuboike
Hitoshi Wakui
Shuhei Nakamura [中村 周平] (contractor)

Clarinet
Kei Ito (co-principal)
Kenji Matsumoto (co-principal)
Takashi Yamane
Hiroki Domen (contractor)

Bassoon
Hironori Ugajin (co-principal)
Kazusa Mizutani [水谷 上総] (co-principal)
Shusuke Ouchi
Yuki Sato
Itaru Morita

Horn
Hitoshi Imai (principal)
Naoki Ishiyama
Yasushi Katsumata
Hiroshi Kigawa
Yudai Shoji
Kazuko Nomiyama

Trumpet
Kazuaki Kikumoto (co-principal)
Tomoyuki Hasegawa (co-principal)
Tomoki Ando
Kotaro Fujii [藤井 虹太郎]
Eiji Yamamoto

Trombone
Hikaru Koga (co-principal)
Mikio Nitta (co-principal)
Ko Ikegami
Hiroyuki Kurogane

Tuba
Yukihiro Ikeda [池田 幸広]

Timpani
Shoichi Kubo [久保 昌一] (principal)
Toru Uematsu (acting principal)

Percussion
Tatsuya Ichikawa [石川 達也]
Hidemi Kuroda [黒田 英実]
Satoshi Takeshima

Harp
Risako Hayakawa