Recognised for his 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 was a winner at the 5th Ilya Musin International Competition for Young Conductors, where he was awarded the Ilya Musin medal. He was also selected by Riccardo Muti to work with him on the operas of Verdi 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 of the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, regular guest conductor of the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre, and regular guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre North Ossetia-Alania. From 2022 to 2025 he was Conductor-Researcher and Advisor of the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra.
Chiya studied music composition and piano performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire, operatic, symphonic, and choral conducting as well as fortepiano research at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he was also awarded an honorary fellowship diploma of the Rachmaninoff Society as a pianist. He has published multiple research articles and works in human-cultural geography, environmental law and governance, applied linguistics, tourism studies, and arts management, and his music compositions focusing on eco-acoustics have also been performed at symposiums with the UNEP, IUCN, and other environmental organisations. He is currently principal conductor of the Higashihiroshima Kurara Symphony Orchestra (since October 2025), principal guest conductor and advisor of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra (since July 2023), and a lecturer in music, AI ethics, and research writing in Japan and Singapore.
May 2026
