NSO takes on Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and the racket of the audience
The Washington Post “On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, I watched one of the most charismatic conductors I’ve seen all year lead the National Symphony Orchestra in one of the most energetic performances I’ve heard all {…}
Kazuki Yamada named CBSO’s new Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor
Kazuki Yamada will become the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor in April 2023, succeeding Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Yamada has been the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor since 2018 and commented on {…}
...under Yamada’s direction this was the most exciting Schumann performance I have ever heard.
Review: Frang and the CBSO at Symphony Hall in Birmingham
“Yamada is reminiscent of Andris Nelsons: a smiling, engaging presence who seems to exude music, and who can shape massive sonorities with the wave of a finger.” TheArtsDesk “Schumann’s Second Symphony is a relative rarity in concert {…}
...a profoundly immersive journey under the baton of Kazuki Yamada.
Review: Part, Ravel and Bartók with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
“Undertaken by staunchly tonal strings, punctuated with dashes of percussion, it was a profoundly immersive journey under the baton of Kazuki Yamada.” NZ Herald