As the Very First Honorary Ambassador of the City of Hirado in Nagasaki Prefecture

Tomomi Nishimoto Profile

Tomomi Nishimoto is the current Artistic Director/Principal Conductor of the IlluminArt Philharmonic Orchestra. She concurrently serves as the Music Partner with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director and the Principal Conductor of the Royal Chamber Orchestra, and the Visiting Professor at Osaka College of Music (Nishimoto’ s Alma Mater) as of 2014. She also serves

as the very first honorary ambassador of the city of Hirado in Nagasaki Prefecture.

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, she went abroad to study Opera and Symphony Conducting at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. She later becomes the first foreigner to serve as the Principal Guest Conductor for both the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra) and the St. Petersburg

Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. While she continues to expand her European activities through successful performances with ensembles that include: British Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera

House, the Prague State Opera, and the Odessa National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.

Nishimoto is making her presence known in the United States as well. She made her American debut by conducting the American Symphony Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall. From 2011 on, she is regularly invited to the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra in the United States. Her activities in

Asia include performances in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, along with major orchestras within Japan.

Nishimoto has also been invited to perform at numerous music festivals, including Split Summer Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Prague Proms, and Vilnius Music Festival.

Recently, Nishimoto has also been experimenting with new genre of music by taking in traditional aspects of Japanese cultures. She has already performed a collaboration of opera and traditional Japanese theatre, as well as the restoration performance of long lost Min'yō tunes.

Aside from music, Nishimoto is active as a member of the Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum held in Davos annually. In 2012, she completed the Harvard Kennedy School’ sExecutive Education Program in public leadership as a fully funded fellow.

In November 2013, Nishimoto lead the IlluminArt Philharmonic at the Vatican Music Festival.

Following on this success, she has plans to unfold her activities in Brazil and in Southeast Asia in2014.

Nishimoto continues to garner worldwide reputations through her global tours and activities.