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14 September 2021
Kazuki Yamada named as new CBSO Chief Conductor

Japanese conductor to succeed Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in 2023

Kazuki Yamada will be the new CBSO Chief Conductor (photo: Zuzanna Specjal)

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has announced that the successor to
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla will be Kazuki Yamada.

The Japanese conductor is already a familiar figure to the CBSO’s players and

audiences alike, as he’s been the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor since 2018,
having made his debut with the ensemble back in 2012.

His appointment – as Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor – begins on April 1, 2023

for an initial four and a half-year period.

‘I first worked with the CBSO in 2012 and immediately felt a very sincere connection

with the players,’ said Yamada. ‘This connection has really grown and developed
over the last nine years; our tour together to Japan in 2016 was one of the highlights