Conductor, Orchestra and Official Accompanists

TAKAHASHI Naoshi

Conductor

TAKAHASHI Naoshi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts where he majored in the conducting and went on to complete studies at the graduate school of the same university. In the university. After he completed the graduate school program at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, he developed his skills in the conducting at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He has then acted as the guest conductor at Brandenburger Theater and the resident conductor/répétiteur of the Theater Osnabrück. From 2006 to 2021 he was the general music director of the Erzgebirgische Theater in Freistaat Sachsen, as well as the chief conductor of the theatre’s orchestra. In his career with the Erzgebirgische Theater, Wagner-Régeny’s “Der Günstling” in 2010 and Goldmark’s “Götz von Berlichingen” in 2013 made numerous appearances in domestic and international media. In 2013, he made his opera debut in Japan with Hindemith’s “Cardillac” of the opera studio in the New National Theatre, Tokyo with a great success. He has been acting as a guest conductor with various orchestras such as New Japan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, Pilsen Radio Symphony Orchestra, State Opera Prague, Theater Augsburg and so forth.
In 2021 he moved his base to Japan, he is currently a professor at Kinjo Gakuin University and a Principal Guest Conductor of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra.