In the season 2004/2005 Toshiyuki Kamioka was appointed General Music Director of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. His colorful, expressive and always intelligent interpretations have immediately convinced the audience. From 1996 to 2004 the Japanese conductor has hold the same position at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Apart from his engagements at Wiesbaden, Kamioka was also named chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford in 1997.
He has appeared successfully as guest conductor in Germany and abroad with the Bamberger Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestras of the German radio stations WDR, MDR, BR and SWR and the NHK Orchestra Tokyo. Besides his engagements as conductor, Toshiyuki Kamoika is also an excellent pianist, who is frequently invited for recitals in Italy, Spain and Japan.
Kamioka studied four subjects at the conservatory of his hometown Tokyo: conducting, composing, piano and violin. In 1982 he received the demanded Ataka-Preis; two years later he came to Germany as stipendiate of Rotary International to study music at Prof. Seibel’s conducting class at the Hamburg Musikhochschule. He could gain his first conducting experiences at the opera companies of Kiel and later from 1992 to 1996 at Essen.
Kamioka has always been interested in furthering young musical talents. He is actively involved in many education programmes. In 1987 he was lecturer of chamber music and piano accompaniment at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. From 1999 to 2000 he led the Conductors Forum of the “Deutscher Musikrat”. In 2000/2001 he held a guest professorate at the Opera class of the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. Since October 2004 he holds a professorial chair for conducting at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken.