Chosei Komatsu
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Conductor Chosei Komatsu (小松長生; born 1 March 1958) is currently in his third year as Artistic Director of Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica and as Music Director of Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra in Japan.
He has guest conducted orchestras, opera and ballet on four continents, including Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kiev National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kiev National Opera, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mtro. Komatsu’s prior conducting posts were Principal Conductor of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Japan Shinsei Symphony, Music Director of Takefu International Music Festival, Music Director of Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Principal Guest Conductor of Lviv State Opera and Ballet, Associate Conductor of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Recent critically acclaimed performances include a tour in Japan with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, nine performances of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly with Compañía Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, and Beethoven’s Symphony #9 with Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock.
Mtro. Komatsu has many recordings to his credit. His gala concert with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, baritone Renato Bruson and soprano Stefania Bonfadelli was released on DVD in 2003. His 2004 recording of Akira Senju’s Piano Concerto Shukumei, with Japan Philharmonic and Kentaro Haneda, is the best selling classical music CD in the history of Japan. He has also recorded for the Columbia, BMG-Victor, EMI and CBC labels, with the Moscow Radio Symphony, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
A native of Japan, Chosei Komatsu earned a Bachelor of Literature degree in aesthetics from University of Tokyo and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany and the Aspen Music Festival and School Conducting Fellowship in the United States. His primary conducting teachers were David Zinman, David Effron, Donald Neuen, and Eiichi Ito, and he took further studies with Kurt Masur, Max Rudolf, and Leonard Bernstein.
Chosei Komatsu currently lives in Florida, USA, and in Fukui, Japan.
Official Website: http://www.c-komatsu.com
