The 42-year-old Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada will succeed the Lithuanian conductor in April 2023 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla take over the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as chief conductor, like the British Guardian reported. Yamada is currently the orchestra’s first guest conductor, as well as: chief conductor and artistic director of the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, first guest conductor of the Yomirui Nippon Symphony Orchestra, permanent conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, musical director and chairman of the Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo and musical director of the Yokohama Sinfonietta. Yamada, born in Kanagawa in 1979, studied in Tokyo, attended master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and lives with his family in Berlin. In 2009 he received first prize at the 51st Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors. Working with orchestras and renowned soloists around the world, Yamada has brought together the Monaco and Birmingham orchestras for a performance of Mendelssohn’s Elias. He plans to do the same with Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” for 2023.