Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1981, Japanese-American composer/conductor Yoshiaki Onishi is currently a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. As a composer, he has worked on commissions that have come from such festivals as Takefu International Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, as well as performing organizations such as Ensemble Intercontemporain. He won the Gaudeamus Prize in 2011. His works are published by Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany. As a conductor, he has conducted Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam), and ECCE (Boston/New York) among others. Yoshiaki Onishi lives in New York.
External links:
Personal website
Works by Onishi on Soundcloud
Works by Onishi on Vimeo