Yutaka Sado

In 1987, he traveled to the United States to attend the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied with Seiji Ozawa.

He later studied with Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Leonard Bernstein,[1] with whom he toured the Soviet Union and Germany.

In 1990, he became a regular participant in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, along with Christoph Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas.

[2] In October 1995, Sado was named the winner of the first Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Music Competition.

In November 2013, the Tonkünstler Orchestra announced the appointment of Sado as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2015–2016 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.