Skopelta Philharmonic Orchestra

This is a new type of amateur orchestra that welcomes current students of the Tokyo University of the Arts as conductors and principal players. Rather than inviting professional musicians as extras, as is often the case, the orchestra will create a single stage by deeply involving them from the rehearsal stage as the core of the performers.

The name of the orchestra, "Scoperta" means "discovery" in Italian. We hope you will enjoy our performances, which are full of new discoveries for both the audience and the performers.



Conductor: Fumitaka Murakami

Fumitaka Murakami was born in Chiba, Japan, and performed with the violinist Ryu Goto and the orator, Nantaka Kyokudo at the Kwansei Gakuin Symphony Orchestra Special Charity Concert "project R "Remember the Abductees"" held in Nagano, Japan in August, 2017. in Nagano, Japan, with violinist Ryu Goto and storyteller Nantaka Kyokudo.

In addition, for three years from 2017, he performed with the ICEP Quartet led by violinist Midori Goto and other schools participating in the program, including Osaka Prefectural Osaka Minami Visual Support School, as part of Music Sharing's Music Instruction Support Program, a certified NPO.

Since 2016, he has been actively involved in social activities, including leading the Cambodia Project organized by the Worldship Orchestra, which conducts educational music promotion activities in developing countries on three occasions.

After dropping out of the School of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2018, he is currently enrolled in the Conducting Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. He has studied conducting under the late Ken Nakamura, Mitsunobu Takatani, Kosuke Tsunoda, Yuki Takai, Kazushi Yamashita, and Ken Takaseki.