Won the 40th Besançon International Music Festival in 1990. Has conducted orchestras throughout Europe and the U.S., including the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Since his debut in 1991 in the NHK Symphony Orchestra Young Talent Concert, he has conducted some of Japan’s most prestigious orchestras to much acclaim. His positions have included Chief Conductor of the Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1995, he formed the Tokyo Mozart Players, basing them at Mitaka City Arts Center. He has recorded the complete symphonies of Beethoven (EXTON). Since his debut in 1997 as an opera conductor with The Abduction from the Seraglio, he has conducted a number of programs to critical claim, including Zemlinsky’s The Birthday of the Infanta and all three acts of Berg’s Lulu at the Nissay Theater. Outside of Japan, he has conducted, among others, the Komische Oper Berlin, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and Bayerisches Staatsballett. Since becoming the second Artistic Director at Biwako Hall in April 2007, he has successfully led productions of The Birthday of the Infanta, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Turandot, Lulu, La Boheme, Tristan und Isolde and Aida. He was awarded the 1st Idemitsu Music Prize in 1991, the 7th Music Award of the Akeo Watanabe Music Foundation in 1999, the 51st Education Minister’s Incentive Award for Young Artists from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2001, the 3rd Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award in 2004, the 46th Mainichi Art Award and the 23rd Kenzo Nakajima Award in 2005, and the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival Excellence Award and the 61st Ministry of Education Art Encouragement Prize
He is the current Artistic Director at Biwako Hall, Principal Guest Conductor of the Century Orchestra Osaka and Director of the Tokyo Mozart Players. He has been Gunma Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Conductor & Artistic Adviser since 2010.

Born in Prague in 1928. Studied conducting at Prague Academy of Music, debuting as a conductor at the time of his graduation at FOK (Prague Symphony Orchestra). In 1956, he took George Szell’s seminar on conducting at Salzburg, and in 1958 won first prize at France’s International Conductors Competition. Up until the end of the 1960s, he gained a reputation as one of the leading Czech conductors through performances and guest performances at a number of Czech orchestras. This was a very fruitful period for Turnovsky, in which he made a number of successful recordings with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra (most notably, Martinů’s Symphony No. 4, for which he was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque, as well as symphonies by Mozart and Haydn). He emigrated to Austria following the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Turnovsky has had a truly impressive international career, holding many prominent posts worldwide. He was appointed for two seasons as General Music Director at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Semperoper from 1966 to1968. In 1975, he was appointed as Music Director of the Norwegian State Opera in Oslo, a position that he also held from 1979 to 1982 at the Bonn Opera. In addition, he has been involved in opera productions at a number of other opera houses, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Royal Opera in Stockholm, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and the Welsh National Opera. He has conducted many of the world’s foremost symphony orchestras, including among others the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In Japan, he was Guest Conductor for the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Kyoto Symphony Orchestra in 1978, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in 1984 and Gunma Symphony Orchestra in 1995. Following the Velvet Revolution, he returned to his home country and was Chief Conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 1996. He has been Gunma Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor since April 1998.

Born in Tokyo. Studied conducting at Tokyo College of Music. Won the 1st 4th International Kirill Kondrasin Competition and began conducting for orchestras worldwide. He served as Chief Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1995, Principal Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1997-2001, and Chief Conductor of the Limburg Symphony Orchestra from 1998-2000. In addition, he has served periodically as a guest conductor with major orchestras throughout the world, including Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra. He served as Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2008. In addition to directing a number of much-acclaimed performances here, he also released a recording of Tchaikovsky on the Denon label, giving people a taste of the splendor of Tchaikovsky’s works. In the summer of 2007, he was invited by the Saiten Kinen Festival Matsumoto to conduct a program of Hayden and Rachmaninov. In May 2008, he conducted the Mito Chamber Orchestra as a last minute replacement for Seiji Ozawa to much acclaim from audiences and critics alike. He is also active both in Japan and abroad in the field of opera, with his performances of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera and Rigoletto proving a great success. Memorable performances in recent years include The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Cunning Little Vixen at the Nissay Theatre, as well as the Fujiwara Opera production of La traviata. He has been Gunma Symphony Orchestra’s Friendship Guest Conductor since April 2011.