Profile of Yokohama Symphony Orchestra
FOUNDATION：	Yokohama Symphony Orchestra (YSO)is an amateur orchestra founded in 1932 by Kojiro Kobune and Sotoe Yasojima. 1n 2007, we celebrated its 75^th birthday and had its 600^th concert in July. It has been managed with the founder’s idea that YSO should be ‘Citizen’s Organ ‘.
SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT：	The first concert was held on July 1^st 1933 at Port Opening Memorial Hall.　 We had had 12 subscription concerts a year since 1954 when the Prefectural Music Hall was built. Since 1984, we have had the subscription concerts eight times a year. On March 2010, we had the 621^st concert. It has been known as “The concerts for the young people” and has been very popular among citizens of Yokohama.
	We play Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony every December at Kanagawa Prefectural Civic Hall. In the recent years as well as our 200 regular choir members ,an additional 400 citizen choral singers have participated to this event. We have a large audience of more than 2000 every year ,which is the most among the concerts of Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony held there.　In addition to these subscription concerts, we hold concerts at school or in other city when we are requested. In 1977 we had an amity concert in Manila which is the sister city of Yokohama
AWARD ：	We received various awards such as the Yokohama Culture Award in 1954, the Kanagawa Culture Award in 1982 and the Tamejiro Ando Award in 1983.
PUBLICATION：	We published a book entitled “Citizen's Organ”, with a subtitle “Kojiro Kobune and Yokohama Symphony Orchestra ” on July 7 , 2007 in honor of Kojiro Kobune’s 100^th birthday and YSO’s 75^th birthday.
MUSIC DIRECTOR &　CONDUCTOR：	Kazuhiro Koga ,who is known as a composer as well

Profile of Y S O Choir
FOUNDATION：	Yokohama Symphony Orchestra Choir was formed in 1971 mainly by the members who gathered for the chorus of Beethoven‘ Missa Solemnis’ which was played as the 258^th subscription concert of YSO in 1970.
SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT：	We have concerts twice a year (in spring and in autumn). We play the chorus pieces with our orchestra.
REPERTOIRES：	2001	Faure	Requiem
		Verdi	Requiem
	2002	Orff	Carmina Brana
		Beethoven	Missa solemnis
	2003	Mozart	Vesperae
		Mendelssohn	Oratorio “Elias”
	2004	Verdi&Wager	Aria and Chorus
		Handel	Oratorio “Messiah”
	2005	Cherubini	Requiem
		Mahler	Symphony No.2 c-minor “Resurrection”
		Haydn	Oratorio “The Creation”
	2006	Mendelssohn	Symphony No.2 “Hymn”
		Mozart	Missa C-major
	2007	Gounod	Missa solemnis sainte Cecile
		Sibelius	Finlandia
		Brahms	Ein Deutseches Requiem
	2008	Beethoven	Mass in C-Major
		Puccini	Gloria Mass, four voices and orchestra
	2009	Faure	Requiem
		Mendelssohn	Oratorio “St. Paul”