General music director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater in Germany.
Spent his childhood in Japan and learned violin from Yutaka Kazeoka. At the age of 12, he traveled to Europe to study violin under Walter Barili and piano under Getrud Kuvasek at the Vienna Conservatory.
In 1986, he traveled to the United States and studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. He studied conducting under Nagao Komatsu, Michael Charlie, and Seiji Ozawa. He also studied music analysis and composition at the Mannes Conservatory of Music, and won the George & Elizabeth Gregory Award from the hospital. In 1993 and 1995, he participated in the Tanglewood Music Festival as a scholarship student and studied under Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle. In 1995, he won the 4th prize at the Nicolai Marko International Conductor Competition held in Denmark.
He has served as assistant conductor for Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, and others at the regular concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has also served as Chief Kapellmeister of the Berlin Komische Oper (KOB) and Principal Guest Conductor the Osaka Symphony Orchestra. At KOB, he conducted operas such as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Turandot" and "The Golden Rooster", and performed high-quality performances at orchestral concerts.
At the Magdeburg Theater, where he served as general music director until the 19th season, "Escape from the Inner Palace", "Cosi fan tutte", "Magic bullet shooter", "Macbeth", "Masquerade", "La Bohème", "Madame Butterfly" Conducted premieres of Tosca, The Flying Dutchman, Tristan and Isolde, Knight of the Rose, The Bride of Messina (German Premiere), Dead City, Salome, Valkyrie.
As a guest conductor, he has conducted the Dresden Philharmonic, the German Chamber Orchestra, the Augsburg Opera Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra.
In Japan, he has conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Yomikyo Symphony Orchestra, Mei Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sakkyo Symphony Orchestra. In opera, he conducted the Biwako Hall Opera Biennale "The Marriage of Figaro" and the Kansai Nikikai "Magic Bullet Shooter". Performed at the Kusatsu International Music Festival.
In 2010, he received the 9th Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award in the conductor category. All of the prize money was donated to the Junior Philharmonic Orchestra due to his desire to contribute to the development of the next generation of musicians.