Kazuki Yamada

Conductor Kazuki Yamada began his career in his native Japan but quickly established relationships with major European orchestras in the 2010s. He is the chief conductor and music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain. Yamada was born on January 26, 1979, in Hadano in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. Among Japanese conductors who have succeeded in the West, he is notable in that his training was exclusively Japanese. Yamada attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in percussion but also taking conducting courses with Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and ...