Toshiyuki Kamioka

Toshiyuki Kamioka (Jap.上 冈 敏 之Toshiyuki Kamioka, born September 20, 1960 in Tokyo) is a Japanese conductor and pianist who mainly lived and worked in Germany since 1984.

Toshiyuki Kamioka studied from 1979 to 1983 conducting, composition, piano and violin at the Academy of Arts and Music in his hometown of Tokyo, where he was honored in 1982 with the Ataka Prize. A scholarship from Rotary International gave him further studies in Hamburg Klaus Peter Seibel at the Academy of Music and Theatre.

After working as a coach and conductor in Kiel and first Kapellmeister at the Aalto Theatre in Essen Kamioka was appointed general music director at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden in 1996, where he worked until 2004. In addition, he was from 1998 to 2006 Music Director of the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Herford.

In 2004, Kamioka, the Office of the General Music Director of the city of Wuppertal and professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken. Since 2009 he has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Wuppertal Symphony and also the music director at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbruecken in Wuppertal. The Saarbrücken dual function he uses to build a common Orchestra Academy of the State Theatre and Music Academy.

Guest conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka, inter alia, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the radio orchestras of the WDR, MDR, BR, SWR and SR.

Toshiyuki Kamioka in 2010 was awarded the Von der Heydt Prize of the city of Wuppertal.

2012 informed the Wuppertal Mayor Peter Jung, Kamioka that in addition to his post as chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and opera director of the Wuppertal Opera will be. He will replace in the latter capacity in the summer of 2014 John Weigand.