Full Biography

Chiya Amos is a multifaceted Singapore artist, recognized for his work as a conductor, composer, pianist, writer, social scientist, environmental advocate, and sustainability researcher. He is currently the permanent conductor of the Eudaimonia Orchestra (Japan), resident conductor of the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra, and artistic partner of the Hiroshima Tafel Orchestra and the Glanz Philharmonic. At the same time, he holds the position of Research Fellow in Sustainability Science and Teaching Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, and is a Representative of the International Council of Environmental Law.

Known for his remarkable versatility in opera, ballet, and symphonic conducting, Chiya is a frequent guest conductor at opera houses and ballet companies throughout Russia; he has worked with the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, RNO-Alania Opera and Ballet Theatre, St. Petersburg Ballet (Alexandrinsky Theatre), Chaliapin State Music Theatre, Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre, and has also worked with opera and ballet companies around the world, including the Malmo Opera, Tokyo Opera Nomori, Shanghai Opera House, and others. In the recent seasons he has worked with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Capella Symphony Orchestra, Alania Mariinsky Orchestra, KLASSIKA Orchestra, Togliatti Symphony Orchestra, Tomsk Symphony Orchestra, Kostroma Symphony Orchestra, Murmask Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Orquestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Blue Marine Ensemble, TRUST Orchestra, Eudaimonia Orchestra, and the Tokyo-Harusai Orchestra. 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, Indonesia Orchestras and Ensembles Festival, and the Singapore International Festival of Music. In 2019, Chiya was the first foreign conductor invited to conduct the opening opera at the Lkhasaran Linkhovoin Opera Festival in Russia, and is the inaugural principal conductor of the Kurahashi East-West Music Festival in 2023.

Chiya won the first prize at the 2nd St. Petersburg Open International Conducting Competition, and was a prize winner at the 2019 Ilya Musin International Competition for Young Conductors. He was personally selected by Riccardo Muti to work with him on the operas of Verdi at the Spring Festival in Tokyo from 2019-2021, where he made his debut in Tokyo with Macbeth and also conducted Verdi’s Rigoletto. 

Chiya studied composition at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire with a Trinity College of Music scholarship, conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Leonid Korchmar with two FJ Benjamin-Singapore Symphony Orchestra Bursary Awards, in Perm with Teodor Currentzis, as well as operatic conducting and vocal coaching at the Tokyo Italian Opera Academy with Riccardo Muti from 2019-2021. He was assistant conductor at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2020-2021, and assistant conductor to Yan Pascal Tortelier with both the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic in 2016/2017. From 2018-2021 he was Regular Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre North Ossetia-Alania, and the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre.

In addition to his conducting work, Chiya is dedicated to cultural, environment, and community resilience and revitalization, as well as the development of preventive healthcare for performing artists. Recognising his research in the socio-cultural sustainability of rural communities in Japan, Chiya became the first professional musician and conductor to be appointed to the International Council of Environmental Law as a Representative (Music and Culture) in 2021, and to be awarded the Hiroshima University Research Fellowship in the field of sustainability science for a three-year period from 2022-2025. He was also awarded the Hiroshima Universtiy Graduate School Leader Education Program Excellent Scholarship (2023), Graduate School Leader Education Program Award (2022), and the university and Higashihiroshima city council’s Best SDGs Ideas Mining for Specialists (2022)

After conducting extensively throughout Russia from 2013-2021, he left in 2022 due to the geopolitical conflict, and joined the Hirodai Symphony Orchestra (Hiroshima University) as their permanent/resident conductor for a 3-year period.  He is also currently a PhD candidate in cultural sociology and human geography with an additional focus in creative geography, sustainability, festival and event management at Hiroshima University, where he also completed the Columbia University in the City of New York, Hiroshima University, and Sasakawa Peace Foundation joint programme in Collaboration in Natural Resource Management. During his free time, he works with medical professionals and musicians to develop a unique kinesiological technique as a preventive healthcare for performing artists.