Nodoka Okisawa
Conductor
Nodoka Okisawa is currently Chief Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra.
Nodoka has won numerous prestigious conducting awards. From 2020 to 2022, Nodoka Okisawa held a scholarship at the Karajan Academy of The Berlin Philharmonic and was assistant to Kirill Petrenko. In the 2023-24 Season, Nodoka Okisawa makes her debut with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others. She will also return to the Tokyo Symphony and Munich Symphony orchestras.
Born in Aomori, Japan, she studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. Nodoka Okisawa lives in Berlin.
You can see Nodoka Okisawa in action on Thursday 12 September at The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: Joie de Vivre