Suntory Group is engaged in a variety of activities related to music, art, sports and experiencing nature that are designed to support the healthy growth and development of the children who will be responsible for the future.
Supporting the Development of the Next Generation through Various Activities
Suntory Group provides children with opportunities to meet top athletes and come into contact with genuine works in fields such as sports, music, art, and the natural environment. As the importance of educating the youth is on the rise due to the decline in the children, we are strengthening the support to form the characters and individuality of children.
Art Kids Club Iro-Iro Do-Re-Do-Re
Suntory Hall and Suntory Museum of Art joint workshop
Suntory Hall—Nurturing Next-generation Performers and Audiences
With Suntory Hall, we offer various programs to develop the next generation, hoping children will experience a thrill listening to live music performed by leading musicians and taking classical music into their lives. The hall has been holding “Subscription Concert for Children” which is Japan’s first regular orchestra concerts for children, and a joint project of Suntory Hall and Suntory Museum of Art “Art Kids Club Iro-Iro-Do-Re-Do-Re”. The hall also offers Suntory Hall Academies, comprised of the Opera Academy and Chamber Music Academy, is geared towards young musicians who are on their way to becoming professionals. Suntory Hall also hosts other programs includes "Master Class by Principals of Vienna Philharmonic", in which members of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra give lesson to young musicians in person.
Subscription Concert for Children
We have been holding “Concerts for Children” since 2002 with the hope to establish a tradition of regular visits to concert halls in children and bring classical music into their lives. This is Japan’s first regular orchestra concert for children. We collect and adopt illustrations for the flyers and the theme song for the season from the children in a format that allows children to not only listen but also participate. A program which children selected through audition can perform as a member of the orchestra, or as a soloist performing piano with a professional pianist. In 2021, a new project which is for a child and young composer to compose and premiere in one of the concert.
A four-hand piano performance
by a young soloist, who passed
an audition, and Michie Koyama,
one of Japan’s top pianist,
with the orchestra
Young musicians passed an
audition win an opportunity
to perform with
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Suntory Hall Keizo Saji Junior Program Seat
A program that continue the wish of Keizo Saji, the first President of Suntory Hall, to pass down classical music to the next generation.
The program invites three pairs of both elementary and junior high school students to performances held on Saturday, Sunday and holidays at Main Hall.
Keizo Saji Junior Program Seat
Suntory Hall Academy
Suntory Hall Academy, comprised of the Opera Academy and Chamber Music Academy, is geared towards young musicians who are on their way to becoming professionals. In addition to receiving coaching from the world’s leading artists, fellows (academy members) attend regular workshops to deepen their musical knowledge and perform in actual concerts.
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Giuseppe Sabbatini,
one of world’s acclaimed Tenor,
also gives lessons in person
as the Executive Faculty
of Opera Academy. -
Some alumni and fellows
of Chamber Music Academy
won international competitions
and broaden their career
internationally.
Suntory Museum of Art — Art Appreciation Opportunities for Children
Aiming to become a museum where children are always there, we provide various programs which children can easily enjoy art and nurture the mind to love art.
Offering Learning Programs
The Suntory Museum of Art is actively working to proliferate education to the next generation according to the “Art Revised, Beauty Revealed” museum message.
We offer free admission to children in junior high school and younger, and also distribute activity sheets. This tool not only guides users to notable areas of interest but also cultivates a spirit to enjoy free inspiration brought by appreciation. Various learning programs that can be enjoyed by both children and adults are offered at each exhibition. In addition to lectures and workshops, online video streaming is now available as well. Moreover, as a “school program,” we invite children and students in elementary and junior high schools mainly from Minato-ku to visit as well as teach art at those schools.
Activity sheet for children
Exhibition guide by educators
All Day Kids' Museum!
All Day Kids' Museum! is a special event when the museum is open to elementary school and junior high school students as well as their guardians on a day that the museum is normally closed during which a variety of educational programs are held. This event has been held once a year since 2014. While viewing exhibitions as they enjoy things such as doing quizzes and drawing sketches using a worksheet, we provide a complete museum experience through specialized programs for children, including interactive art appreciation, workshops, and a museum tour. Since 2020, we have offered videos and other online programs to enable guests to enjoy from the comfort of their home.
Online banner of “All Day Kids' Museum!”
In-house program
Supporting the Development of Children through Sports
Suntory Group runs a variety of activities designed to support the healthy development of children’s minds and bodies through sports. As part of the activity, Suntory’s sports teams, Tokyo Suntory SUNGOLIATH and Suntory SUNBIRDS promote their sports.
The athletes and staff of the two teams hold workshops to directly teach children. In addition, the SUNGOLIATH instructs at rugby schools and operates rugby sports events while the SUNBIRDS instructs local volleyball teams and students and supports the operation of volleyball tournaments, to cooperate in offering opportunities for children to experience sports.
Rugby workshop
Volleyball workshop
Support through the Hibarigaoka Gakuen
The Hibarigaoka Gakuen has been supporting continuity education from kindergarten to high school since Shinjiro Torii became the first chairperson in 1950. Shinjiro Torii places importance on being devoted to one’s parents and kept saying “a person who is devoted to his own parents can do anything well.” The founding spirit has been passed down today and the school engages in educating people based on the belief that “the basic natural thought of mankind of parents’ whish the growth of their children and children appreciates and respects their parents unites a family, which raises the thought of contributing to the society.” From 2008, as educational supports of next generation, we have provided primary school and junior high school students environmental curriculum, for example, Hanaiku, Mizuiku, and activities outside the school, and supported school visions.
Planting trees at the open air school
Nurturing Challenging Spirit through Experiencing Camping at an Uninhabited Island
Since 2007, Suntory Group has been promoting Yoshima Project in cooperation with Kobe YMCA, a public interest incorporated foundation which operates a camping site in an uninhabited island in Shodo-gun, Kagawa Prefecture since 1950. The project is intended to nurture spirit of challenge and dreams of children experiencing rich natural environment unique to an uninhabited island and plans and holds Adventure Camp participated by Gota Miura and various programs around the year. Every year, approximately 3,500 children participated in the program.
In 2020 there were 250 participants due to restrictions related to Covid-19.
Yoshima Summer Camp
Yoshima
Developing Work Value in Children Through Real Experience
The Suntory Group has opened a Beverage Service Center pavilion for children to experience operations related to vending machines at KidZania in Tokyo and Koshien where kids learn about work and society through play. The Beverage Service Center can teach vending machines systems as well as the knowledge and innovations used to deliver products to customers while evoking passion in people to support beauty, safety and reliability. We hope to cultivate work value and bring new awareness to children everyday through hands-on experience where they can interact with actual vending machines often seen as no more than part of the cityscape.
Learning the Inner workings of Vending Machines
Delivering Products to Vending Machines