Shimpei Tsugita

After graduating from Kyoto Municipal Music High School (now Kyoto Horikawa Music High School), he graduated at the top of her class from Kyoto City University of Arts. At the same time, he was awarded the Music Faculty Prize and the Kyoto Music Society Prize. He won unanimous first prize at the 24th Japan Winds and Percussion Competition and was a member of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra until March 2008. He then became a tuba player with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He has performed tuba concertos with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He has participated as a guest artist in the International Tuba and Euphonium Competitions in Linz (Austria), Indiana and Tennessee (USA), and the "Gravissimo! respectively, as guest artist. In 2015, he toured with Sergio Carolino in a duo concert (a live recording of the Tokyo concert was released on Octavia Records as 'Yamaha Tuba Duo/Super Live!) He has also performed and recorded CDs as a member of Samurai Brass, Waheli, The Tuba band and Naniwa "Orchestral Winds". He has released the DVD 'Tuba Master' and the CD 'TuBest! Studied tuba under Mika Kashima, Shigeo Takesada, Daniel Pelantoni and Roger Bobo. He is an associate professor at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, a lecturer at Tokyo College of Music and a lecturer at the Conservatoire Diploma Course at Shobi Music College, where he also devotes himself to the training of future generations. Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra player, Associate Professor at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Lecturer at Tokyo College of Music, Lecturer at Shobi Music College, Lecturer at Da Capo Music School, member of Samurai Brass, member of The Tuba Band, member of World Heritage.