Kazuki Yamada

Kazuki Yamada is Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO). Alongside his Birmingham commitments, he is Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (OPMC) and will become Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) from the 2026/27 season.

His passionate, collaborative approach to music-making sustains a busy international schedule across symphonic, operatic, and choral repertoire. Following a fruitful previous season that included debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the current season began with his return to the BBC Proms with the CBSO and to the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and involves debut appearances with the Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Wiener Symphoniker. He also conducts Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.

As Music Director, Yamada has regularly taken both the CBSO and OPMC on tour to his home country, Japan. And he continues to perform there every season with the renowned orchestras including Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

Strongly committed to his role as an educator, Yamada appears annually as a guest artist at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland.