Keitaro Harada

During his senior year at Interlochen, Harada performed on National Public Radio program From The Top, with pianist Christopher O'Riley.

Harada began undergraduate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a saxophone student of Debra Richtmeyer and double majoring in Music History.

[10] In the summers of 2004–2005, Harada attended Conducting Workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia where he studied with Sian Edwards, Adrian Gnam and Leonid Korchmar.

In the summer of 2009, Harada was invited to the inaugural season of the Castleton Festival where he studied four Benjamin Britten operas at Lorin Maazel's estate.

The following summer, James Levine and the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra invited Harada as Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.

Harada assisted Christoph von Dohnányi in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos[12] and conducted the closing performance.