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Conductor: Cho Ota

Gen Ohta, conductor

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Born in 1994 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Learned cello and piano since childhood.
Graduated at Chief his class from the Department of Conducting, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He received the Ataka Award, the Doseikai Award, and the Wakasugi Hiroshi Memorial Fund Award within the university. Graduated from the master's program in conducting at the Graduate School of Music.
In 2015, he won 2nd place and the Audience Award at the 17th Tokyo International Music Competition (Conducting).
Studied conducting under Tadaaki Odaka and Ken Takaseki, and studied composition under Junichi Futahashi.
He will take lessons from Kazuki Yamada, Paavo Järvi, Douglas Bostock, Peter Csaba, Zsolt Nagy, and Laszlo Tihany.
To date, he has conducted the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, etc., and young players who are expected to do even more in the future. Leading conductor.
Official conductor of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra.