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Chief Conductor of
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
(2022.9-)Fabio Luisi

Message from Fabio Luisi
We are offering you a broad, broad spectrum of classical music, with very interesting choices of soloists and conductors. And our activities are very varied, we are offering concerts for families, we are offering small chamber concerts before our subscription concerts. I will be conducting most of our concerts and am very proud and happy about it. Also in 2025, we have been invited to the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, which is the most important festival concerning Mahler's music, and we are one of the few chosen selected orchestras in the world, which I am happy about. You cannot just go there, you need to be invited. NHK has been invited under my direction to play concerts in Amsterdam, and we are embarking on a very important European Tour surrounding these important concerts. So, our activity is very, very lovely and very strong. We have received great attention internationally. NHK Symphony Orchestra has been recognized as one of the major symphonic orchestras in the world, and this is very important that you the audience, my fans, the pubic who are attending our concerts stay true to us, because we love you and we are playing for you.
Chief Conductor NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Fabio Luisi
Music Director EmeritusCharles Dutoit(2003-)

Honorary Conductor LaureateHerbert Blomstedt(2016-)

Conductor LaureateVladimir Ashkenazy (2007-)

Honorary ConductorPaavo Järvi(2022.9-)

Permanent ConductorTadaaki Otaka(2010-)

Permanent ConductorTatsuya Shimono(2023-)

CONDUCTOR
CONDUCTOR | PERIOD | |
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Hidemaro Konoe | 1926.1-1935.2 | |
Josef König | 1927.4-1929.4 | |
Nicolai Schiferblatt | 1929.7-1936.7 | |
Joseph Rosenstock | Chief | 1936.8-1946.9 |
Principal | 1956.3-1957.3 | |
Honorary | 1951.8-1985.10 | |
Hisatada Otaka | Chief | 1942.4-1951.2 |
Kazuo Yamada | Chief | 1942.4-1951.7 |
Shin'ichi Takata | Chief | 1944.4-1951.5 |
Kurt Wöss | Principal | 1951.9-1954.8 |
Niklaus Aeschbacher | Principal | 1954.8-1956.3 |
Wilhelm Loibner | Principal | 1957.3-1959.2 |
Wilhelm Schüchter | Principal | 1959.2-1962.3 |
Alexander Rumpf | Principal | 1964.8-1965.7 |
Joseph Keilberth | Honorary | 1967.1-1968.7 |
Lovro von Matačić | Honorary | 1967.1-1985.1 |
Wolfgang Sawallisch | Honorary | 1967.1-1994.10 |
Honorary Laureate | 1994.11-2013.2 | |
Hiroyuki Iwaki | Permanent | 1969.2-2006.6 |
Otmar Suitner | Honorary | 1973.1-2010.1 |
Horst Stein | Honorary | 1975.3-2008.7 |
Yuzo Toyama | Permanent | 1979.2-2023.7 |
Tadashi Mori | Permanent | 1979.2-1987.5 |
Herbert Blomstedt | Honorary | 1986.1-2016.12 |
Honorary Laureate | 2016.12- | |
Hiroshi Wakasugi | Permanent | 1995.4-2009.7 |
Charles Dutoit | Principal | 1996.9-1998.8 |
Music Director | 1998.9-2003.8 | |
Music Director Emeritus | 2003.9- | |
Vladimir Ashkenazy | Music Director | 2004.9-2007.8 |
Laureate | 2007.9- | |
André Previn | Principal Guest | 2009.9-2012.8 |
Honorary Guest | 2012.9-2019.2 | |
Tadaaki Otaka | Permanent | 2010.1- |
Paavo Järvi | Chief | 2015.9-2022.8 |
Honorary | 2022.9- | |
Fabio Luisi | Chief | 2022.9- |
Tatsuya Shimono | Permanent | 2023.10- |