After graduating from the piano department of Toho Gakuen School of Music, he studied conducting under Hideomi Kuroiwa, Ken Takaseki, and Toshiaki Umeda. After being selected as a conducting trainee by Seiji Ozawa and receiving special lessons, he made his opera debut in 2010 in the youth opera "Hansel and Gretel" at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto.
In 2013, he moved to Dresden, Germany, and enrolled in the Graduate School of Conducting at the Dresden University of Music, where he studied under Professor GC Sandmann and completed his studies. During that time, he was invited to the Moritzburg Festival by the recommendation of Jan Vogler, the general director of the Dresden Festival, and served as assistant conductor to Heinrich Schiff. In 2015, he won both the Audience Award and the Orchestra Award at the Besançon International Conducting Competition. He then made his European debut conducting the Orchestre National de Lille and the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna. In 2018, he served as assistant to Music Director K. Petrenko in Wagner's Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera.
He has conducted the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra, and Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, among others.
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