Born in Toyonaka, Osaka in 1993. Matsumoto Munetoshi spent his childhood familiar with music, especially the violin, as a member of the Soai Music School and Century Youth Orchestra. He went on to study at Kyoto Horikawa Music High School, and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music, Department of Conducting, where he received the highest award, the Acanthus Prize. He studied conducting under Tadaaki Otaka, Ken Takaseki, and Yoshikazu Tanaka, and violin under Kazuki Sawa and Chieko Sogabe, and took master classes under Douglas Bostock and Paavo Järvi while at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
He became the conductor of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra in April 2019. In October 2020, he made his debut at subscription concert of the Tokyo City Philharmonic, where he served as a conducting researcher and became the foundation for his talent as a conductor. In addition to these two orchestras, he also made his debut with New Japan Philharmonic in October 2020 and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in February 2021. He has performed as a guest with the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and is scheduled to perform with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and others in the future. He is one of the promising young conductors who will lead the music world in the future, and is a notable presence whose music, drawn from his fresh sensibility, is one to watch.