Yutaka Sado, Artistic Director
Critics
have unanimously hailed Yutaka Sado as one of the most enthralling and
charismatic conductors of the new generation.
Born in Kyoto, Japan and studied flute at Kyoto City University of the
Arts, Sado soon won the confidence of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at
Tanglewood Music Festival in 1987. In
1988, Sado served as assistant to Bernstein and toured Europe with the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra.
Sado captured world attention by receiving the first prize at the 39th
International Conducting Competition in Besançon in 1989, and the first prize
at the Leonard Bernstein International Competition in Jerusalem in 1995. Sado assisted late Bernstein, Michael Tilson
Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1990 to inaugurate Pacific Music
Festival in Sapporo, Japan where he has served as resident conductor and later
as guest conductor.
Appointed
as Principal Conductor of the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Paris in 1993,
the First Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine and
Principal Guest Conductor at Orchestra
Sinfonica di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi” in 1999, Sado has been guest conducting major
orchestras throughout Europe including Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National
de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Konzerthausorchester
Berlin, Symfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sachsische Staatskapelle
Dresden, Gewabdhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome,
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande .
In 2005 Sado has been appointed as Artistic Director for Hyogo Performing Arts
Center and its resident orchestra in Nishinomiya, Japan. More than 20 CDs have
been released and most recently he has released a CD “Dvorak Symphony No. 9”
with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.