Permanent Conductors and Music Directors
- Hidemaro Konoye (January 1926–February 1935)
- Josef König (April 1927–April 1929)
- Nicolai Schifferblatt (July 1929–July 1936)
- Joseph Rosenstock (August 1936–September 1946 full-time conductor; March 1956–March 1957 Principal Conductor)
- Hisatada Otaka (April 1942–February 1951† full-time conductor)
- Kazuo Yamada (April 1942–July 1951 full-time conductor)
- Shin'ichi Takata (April 1944–May 1951 full-time conductor)
- Kurt Wöss (September 1951–August 1954 Principal Conductor)
- Niklaus Aeschbacher (August 1954–March 1956 Principal Conductor)
- Wilhelm Loibner (March 1957–February 1959 Principal Conductor)
- Wilhelm Schüchter (February 1959–March 1962 Principal Conductor)
- Alexander Rumpf (August 1964–July 1965 Principal Conductor)
- Hiroyuki Iwaki (February 1969–June 2006† Permanent Conductor)
- Tadashi Mori (February 1979–May 1987† Permanent Conductor)
- Yuzo Toyama (February 1979– Permanent Conductor)
- Hiroshi Wakasugi (April 1995–July 2009† Permanent Conductor)
- Charles Dutoit (September 1996–August 1998 Principal Conductor; September 1998–August 2003 Music Director)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (September 2004–August 2007 Music Director)
- André Previn, KBE (September 2009–August 2012Principal Guest Conductor)
- Tadaaki Otaka, CBE (January 2010– Permanent Conductor)
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