Background
Otomo, Naoto was born in 1958 in Tokyo.
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Naoto Otomo
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Student, Toho Gakuen School Music., 1958. Studied with, Seiji Ozawa. Studied with, Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
Studied with, Morihiro Okabe. Studied with, Tadaaki Otaka. Studied with, Andrew Previn.
Studied with, Leonard Bernstein. Studied with, Igor Markevitch.
Career
Assistant condr.NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, 1986—1988, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, 1986—1989. Resident conductor Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, since 1991.
Principal conductor Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, since 1994. Opera debut Weber's Freischutz, 1988. Notable collaborations with a host of international artists including n, Joshua Bell, Shlomo Mintz, Regis Pasquir and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violists Yuri Bashmet, Bruno Pasquier and Gerard Causse, cellists Marion Brunello and David Geringas, pianists Radu Lupu, Andrew Watts, Stephen Kovacevich, Bruno-Leonardo Gelber, Ivan Moravec, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Cyprien Katsaris, and numerous others, trumpeter Maurice Andrew, soprano Sumi Jo and tenor Jose Carreras.
