Tomoko Kusakari is a Japan-based marimba player whose work includes performance, recording, commissioning new repertoire, and teaching. Zen-On Music records that on July 18, 1977, Kusakari and Mutsuko Fujii premiered Akira Miyoshi’s Etude Concertante for Two Marimbas, commissioned by Contemporary Marimba Recital ‘77.
Seiji Yokoyama’s Divertimento for Two Marimbas, Kiyukyoku (1974), was commissioned by Kusakari and Fujii. Masahiko Satoh’s discography lists Kusakari’s CD Uruwashi no Latina, recorded at Toshiba EMI Studio in March and April 1995, with Kusakari on marimba and Satoh on piano and arrangements.
Current official profiles of marimba players Natsumi Oikawa and Ritsuko Hoshi name Kusakari among their marimba teachers. Narashino City’s February 1, 2026 public-information bulletin listed her as the marimba performer for a March 25 lunchtime concert titled Marimba Sound and Recitation Convey That Day — March 11, 2011.