Yoshihiko Koga

Yoshihiko Koga has completed the clarinet course at The Royal Conservatoire of Liège in Belgium. He has also won 1st prize in the Jmusicien competition organized by the Belgian Francophone and the North of France. He has performed Mozart's concerto with the Belgian Conservatoire Orchestra. After returning to Japan, he performed a clarinet recital that the Japan Federation of Musicians sponsored at Izumi Hall. He has studied clarinet under the late Shinji Iwao, as well as with Akira Fukui, Ricardo Morales, JP Pouvillon, and Nobuyuki Kanai. Koga is currently the concertmaster for Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra, a lecturer at Osaka College of Music, and teaches part-time at Tokushima Bunri University.