Amos Chiya is a Singaporean conductor, composer and pianist, and currently the Music Advisor and Conductor of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Higashihiroshima Kurara Orchestra, Conductor of the Eudaimonia Orchestra, and Music Advisor of the Glanz Philharmonic.
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 an 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 orchestras, focusing on regional and community orchestras for social impact. He was the conductor and music advisor of the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra from 2022 to 2025, and was named Music Advisor of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra in 2023. In 2025, a new orchestra was formed under the name Higashihiroshima Kurara Orchestra, drawing musicians graduated from the Kurara Junior Orchestra which is affiliated with the Higashihiroshima Arts and Culture Hall, and launched at the Saijo Sake Festival 2025, inviting Chiya as the first principal conductor of the orchestra.
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