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Formed in 1961, the Yamaha Symphonic Band continues its activities through to the present day, comprised of amateur musicians from the Yamaha Corporation.

The main activities of the band include its yearly concert and pops concert. The band commissions a new song every year which it adds to its repertoire of approximately 50 specially-commissioned symphonic band pieces.

The Yamaha Symphonic Band also takes part in regional events such as the parades and promenades at the Hamamatsu festival and Hamanako International Flower Festival "Flora Parade", and actively collaborates with Hamamatsu City's drive to become a "City of Music". Recently the band has been active internationally at such events as the Midwest Band Clinic, a performance in Korea, and a concert commemorating 80 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Canada. It consistently takes the gold medal at the "All Japan Symphonic Band Contest", Japan's premier Symphonic Band competition. To date, the band has won 28 medals across all divisions of the contest. In recognition of the band's many years of activity, the Shizuoka Board of Education awarded it the "1995 Shizuoka Prefecture Cultural Award".
Yamaha symphonic band The 43rd annual concert
Honorary conductors
Genkichi Harada First Resident Conductor Toshiaki Morita Second Resident Conductor Ken-ichi Watabe Third Resident Conductor Tetsuya Kawahara Fourth Resident Conductor
The rehearsal room doorplate
Reminders of a brilliant past
Display panels featuring previous concerts
The Yamaha Symphonic Band is made up from members from every division in the company, ranging from those involved with wind instrument manufacture right through to designers of electronic instruments and audio-visual products. Every Tuesday and Thurday, members gather in the band's own rehearsal room, for practices which last from 7 to 9:30pm.

The band participates in concerts and parades, and also undertakes a great many independent activities and classes by request, attending 20 such events in 2008.

From 2007, the Yamaha Symphonic Band welcomed internationally active saxophonist Nobuya Sugawa as resident conductor, and will work to expand its activities in the future.
Reheasing in the concert room
The Lesson Room
A mini-concert in the rehearsal room
A promenade concert
at Hamamatsu Station Plaza
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