

His Russian and Czech catalogue includes The Golden Cockerel, The Love for Three Oranges, Cunning Little Vixen. French repertoire includes Manon, Cendrillon, Pélleas et Mélisande, L’étoile, L’enfant et les sortilèges, while Italian works feature La fille du régiment, Don Pasquale, L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola, La traviata, Falstaff. With a natural affinity for Italian and French repertoire, his creative curiosity has also led him towards other composers, including Russian and Czech. In 2022 he received the Grand Prix du Plaisir du Théâtre and named Best Director at the Opera XXI awards in Spain. Well-known at opera houses including Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Real, La Monnaie, and Glyndebourne, he is equally renowned in the theatre-he was Co-Director of Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (2008-18). She lives in Berlin.įrench director Laurent Pelly is sought after globally. In 2019 she obtained her second master’s at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin under Christian Ehwald and Hans-Dieter Baum. She studied conducting at the Tokyo University of the Arts with Ken Takaseki and Tadaaki Otaka and graduated with a master’s degree. In 2020, she conducted The Merry Widow at the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre.īorn in 1987 in Aomori, she learned piano, cello, and oboe since childhood. She gained further experience as assistant conductor of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and in opera productions in Japan and Europe. In 20 she was selected for the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo. She has attended numerous master classes, amongst others with Neeme and Paavo Järvi and Kurt Masur. She also regularly conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and the Noord Nederlands Orkest. Highlights of the current season include subscription debuts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de València, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. Together with Petrenko, she will conduct the 50th anniversary concert of the Karajan Academy in May 2022. The scope of her two-year scholarship also includes conducting her own concert projects with Berliner Philharmoniker academy members. In the 2020/21 season, she has been a scholarship holder at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and assistant to principal conductor Kirill Petrenko in concert and opera. In 2018, she won the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting. Nodoka Okisawa is winner of the Grand Prix, Orchestra Prize, and Audience Prize at the renowned Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors 2019.
