Kosuke Tsunoda, Japan

Born in 1980 in Aichi, Kosuke Tsunoda began his studies at the State University for Music and the Arts in Tokyo. In 2003 he passed his final exam in conducting and won the Ataka Prize.

Since 2005 he has furthered his studies at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy, specialising in orchestral conducting. He has taken part in master classes with Kurt Masur and Ulrich Windfuhr, as well as in the 2007 ‘Interaktion’ Conducting Workshop.

In the course of his studies, Kosuke Tsunoda has worked with orchestras as the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra or the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. He has also been Assistant Conductor at Tokyo’s New National Theatre, the Chamber Opera or the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation. In Japan he mounted two rarely heard works by Schubert, the early singspiels Der vierjährige Posten and Die Freunde von Salamanka. He won 2nd prizes at the 3rd Students’ Conducting Competition in Dresden 2006 as well as in the 4th Students’ Conducting Competition in 2008.

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