Core Members

  The PAC Orchestra consists of professional core members mostly under 35 years of age. The PAC Orchestra Division seeks and assembles talented musicians from various regions of the world, including Japan, other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. During their 3 years in the PAC Orchestra, these excellent young musicians are given ample opportunity to practice their repertoires in styles ranging from Baroque to Contemporary through performances of orchestral and chamber music, opera and ballet.

Violin Sayuri Ishihara
Gunma, Japan
Hidetomo Onishi
Hyogo, Japan
Christophe Quatremer
France
Tomomi Kondo
Nara, Japan
Miki Shibamura
Tokyo, Japan
Mayu Shirai
Chiba, Japan
Ko Taniguchi
Mie, Japan
Mario Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Sachiyo Nakano
Osaka, Japan
Hitomi Nishina
Hyogo, Japan
Sachiko Nomura
Tokyo, Japan
Satomi Fukuzawa
Kyoto, Japan
Reina Fukushima
Hyogo, Japan
Minako Fujii
Hokkaido, Japan
Kanako Matsumoto
Hokkaido, Japan
Viola Margaret Carey
Canada
Peter Kovãč
Germany
Masahiro Chihara
Saitama, Japan
Yuki Masunaga
Hyogo, Japan
Ming-Hsin Lu
Taiwan
Cello Sojung Lee
Korea
Evgeny Osokin
Russia
Kumiko Hosotani
Hyogo, Japan
Yuji Hotta
Aichi, Japan
Joyu Lee
Taiwan
Double Bass Paul Wehle
U.S.A.
Akiko Kikuchi
Tokyo, Japan
Sachiko Matsue
Chiba, Japan
Flute Rita D'Arcangelo
Italy
Oboe Tomoko Norizuki
Chiba, Japan
Seung Hwa Han
Korea
Clarinet Wataru Inamoto
Osaka, Japan
Bassoon Noriko Kakiuchi
Fukushima, Japan
Natsuki Matsuno
Shiga, Japan
Horn Jonathan Kuhns
U.S.A.
Russell Bonifede
U.S.A.
Trumpet Joel Brennan
U.S.A.
Trombone Atsushi Tozawa
Gunma, Japan
Timpani and Percussion Rieko Koyama
Nara, Japan
Naoki Yasuda
Kyoto, Japan