Recognised for his remarkable versatility in opera, ballet, and symphonic conducting, Amos Chiya has worked professionally with opera theatres, ballet companies and orchestras in more than 25 countries, including recent appearances in Japan, U.S.A., U.K, Mexico, Spain, France, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, 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, and the first Singaporean conductor invited to conduct Verdi’s Aida and Rigoletto at the Lkhasaran Linkhovoin Opera Festival in Russia in 2019. 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 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. 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.
Chiya studied music composition and piano performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire, operatic, symphonic, and choral conducting at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and completed his doctorate in human and cultural geography at Hiroshima University. He continued his professional training in Perm with Teodor Currentzis, and at the Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo in 2019/2021 with Riccardo Muti. He was permanent conductor and advisor of the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra from 2022 to 2025, and principal conductor of the Higashihiroshima Kurara Symphony Orchestra since 2025. 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 their guest conductor since 2023, and chief conductor since 2026.
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