Min-On Concert Association

The Min-On Concert Association (民主音楽協会, Minshu Ongaku Kyōkai) is a Japan-based organization that promotes international music and performing arts exchanges.

The organization's offices, library and museum are located in the Min-On Culture Center in the Shinjuku-ku district of Tokyo.

It arose from Ikeda's perception that access to high-quality live music performances was beyond the reach of the majority of Japanese people.

In 1997, the Min-On Cultural Center was opened in downtown Tokyo and now houses the organization's offices as well as its music museum and library.

By the end of the 1990s Min-On had organized 70,000 concerts with performers from 100 different countries and attended by over 100 million people in Japan.

The concerts present a wide range of styles and genres including European and Chinese opera, ballet, and indigenous folk music.

Olivier Grangean, who won the 1991 competition, later became music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia.

[16] As of 2006, the library held 30,000 books, 45,000 volumes of sheet music, 200 magazine titles, and a large collection of piano rolls.