BIOGRAPHY

Amos Chiya is a Singaporean conductor, composer, pianist, researcher, educator, and jurist, and is currently the Chief Conductor of the Eudaimonia Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Kurara Symphony Orchestra, and Music Advisor and Conductor of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra.

Recognised for his remarkable versatility in opera, ballet, and symphonic conducting, Chiya has worked professionally with opera theatres and orchestras in Japan, U.S.A., U.K, Mexico, Iceland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Kazakhstan, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Russia. Chiya was also a guest conductor at several music festivals, including the Spring Festival in Tokyo, International Musical Olympus Festival, Estivals de Musique en Medoc, and the Singapore International Festival of Music. Dedicated to regional revitalization, he also helped to establish the Kurahashi East-West Music Festival in Japan in 2023.

Chiya won the first prize at the 2nd St. Petersburg Open International Conducting Competition, and the Ilya Musin medal at the 5th Ilya Musin International Competition for Young Conductors. He was also awarded an honorary diploma of the Rachmaninoff Society for his contribution to music in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2019, he was selected by Riccardo Muti to work with him on the operas of Verdi at the Spring Festival in Tokyo for 2019/2021, where he made his debut in Tokyo with Macbeth and also conducted Rigoletto. Chiya was also the first Singaporean conductor invited to conduct Verdi’s Aida and Rigoletto at the Lkhasaran Linkhovoin Opera Festival in Russia in 2019.

Chiya studied music composition and piano performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and conducting at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He continued his professional training in Perm with Teodor Currentzis, and at the Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo with Riccardo Muti. Early on in his career, he was assistant conductor to Yan Pascal Tortelier with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic, assistant conductor at the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, and regular guest conductor of both the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre North Ossetia-Alania.

After conducting extensively since his debut in 2012, he took a step back from conducting to focus on academic research and teaching in 2022, while maintaining artistic partnerships and advisory roles with regional and community orchestras as well as music festivals. He was the conductor and music advisor of the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra from 2022 to 2025, and was named music advisor and conductor of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra in 2023. In 2025, he was invited to conduct the Kurara Symphony Orchestra during their debut at the Saijo Sake Festival, and became the first principal conductor of the orchestra. He also gave the Eudaimonia Orchestra its present name in 2022, helping to establish it as one of the most distinctive emerging orchestras in western Japan, known for its bold programming and creative artistic vision, and has been its guest conductor since 2023, and chief conductor since 2026.

March 2026