Biography
Conductor
Kazuki Yamada
Kazuki Yamada is music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony and also artistic and music director of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic. Last summer he returned to the BBC Proms with the CBSO, and this season appears with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Musikfest Berlin and will take the CBSO on tour to Europe and Japan. With Monte-Carlo Opera, he leads a double bill of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and L’heure espagnole, and debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Swedish Radio Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony with these performances.
Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Yamada worked closely with Seiji Ozawa, which served to underline the importance of what he calls his “Japanese feeling” for classical music. He continues to work and perform in Japan every season with the NHK Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony. He studied music at Tokyo University of the Arts and won first prize in the 51st International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 2009. He now resides in Berlin.
Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Yamada worked closely with Seiji Ozawa, which served to underline the importance of what he calls his “Japanese feeling” for classical music. He continues to work and perform in Japan every season with the NHK Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony. He studied music at Tokyo University of the Arts and won first prize in the 51st International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 2009. He now resides in Berlin.
