Kazuki Yamada
(c) Marco Borggreve
Kazuki Yamada has been named Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo, Monaco, as from September 2016 on. He is currently the orchestra’s First Guest conductor. A winner of the Besançon Conducting Competition in 2009, Yamada is also Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. In Japan, he holds the positions of Principal Conductor of Japan Philharmonic, Music Partner with Sendai Philharmonic and Ensemble Orchestral Kanzawa and Music Director of Yokohama Sinfonietta, an ensemble he founded whilst still a student.
