THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTING COMPETITION in 2024

Participant Profiles vol.1

No.39

Kent MOUSSAULT

Japan, Netherlands / Born on October 12, 1993

Raised in Amsterdam, Kent has studied conducting and composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Tokyo
College of Music. He has studied under Kenneth Montgomery, Martyn Brabbins, Junichi Hirokami, Toshifumi Tashiro, Frans Brüggen, and Jorma Panula. Kent has
performed with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, he conducted the premiere of George Frideric Handel’s Theodora in the Canary Islands.



No.56

KIKO Erika

Japan / Born on April 27, 1988

Erika graduated with a major in conducting from the Composer and Conductor faculty of the Tokyo College of Music and went on to complete a post-graduate
program in conducting from the same institution. She studied under Junichi Hirokami, Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Toshifumi Tashiro, Masanori Mikawa, and Tatsuya
Shimono. Erika won third place in the First Hiroshima International Conductors Competition. She served as assistant conductor for the NHK Symphony Orchestra
for two years from 2017. She has performed with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and Japan Century
Symphony Orchestra.



No.68

Kornilios Viktor MICHAILIDIS

Greece / Born on July 2, 1989

The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and holds a master’s degree in conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He served as assistant conductor for the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra during the 2016-17 season and for the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2018 to 2020. He recently completed his tenure as conductor-in-residence with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Michailidis has also performed with the Russian National Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Athens State Orchestra, and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted several performances at the Teatro Real in Madrid, including productions of The "Magic Flute" and "Nixon in China".



No.75

ITO Shinnosuke

Japan / Born on January 28, 2004

Shinnosuke was a member of the Triphony Hall Junior Orchestra for about seven years from the age of 10, and was taught by Yoko Matsuo. He graduated from the
Music High School Attached to the Faculty of Music the Tokyo University of the Arts with a specialization in composition in March 2022 and gained admission into
the Tokyo University of the Arts Department of Conducting in April of the same year. He is currently a third-year student at the university. He studies composition
under Tatsuya Hayashi. He studied conducting under Orie Suzuki in high school, then under Ken Takaseki, and is currently studying it under Kazufumi Yamashita.
He has also taken master classes with Zsolt Nagy and lessons with Tatsuya Shimono.



No.90

TAKAHASHI Tatsuma

Japan / Born on August 29, 1989

Tatsuma began conducting at the age of 14. He graduated from the Department of Conducting, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and went on to complete the master’s program in conducting from the same university. In 2021, he graduated from the Department of Conducting, the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. Tatsuma studied conducting under Tadaaki Otaka and Christian Ehwald. He has also studied with Yoko Matsuo, Masamitsu Takahashi, Yuji Yuasa, Jorma Panula, and Riccardo Muti. He has performed with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, and the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. He is currently a part-time lecturer at the Department of Voice/Music at the the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin.



No.106

KANNARI Daiki

Japan / Born on January 6, 1997

Daiki graduated from the Department of Conducting, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and went on to complete the master’s program in
conducting from the same university. He studied conducting under Ken Takaseki and Kazufumi Yamashita. He has performed in workshops as part of the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra and Agency for Cultural Affairs’ performing tours during 2017-20. He has also performed with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Mt. Fuji Philharmonic Orchestra. Daiki has been serving as assistant conductor for the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2023.