Amos Chiya

Biography

Dr. Amos Chiya is a professional conductor, composer, and pianist. He studied composition and piano at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Drama in London and holds postgraduate and advanced degrees from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia), and a PhD in cultural sociology from Hiroshima University, focusing on arts and event management, sustainability, and systematic musicology. As a conductor, he has worked with opera theatres, ballet companies, and orchestras in Japan, U.S.A., U.K, Mexico, Iceland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Kazakhstan, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Russia. He has also won several prizes and awards in piano, composition, and conducting, was a representative for music and culture on the International Council of Environmental Law, was awarded a scholarship to study medicine, and a research fellowship at Hiroshima University. After conducting extensively for more than a decade, he took a step back from conducting to focus on academic research and teaching, while maintaining artistic partnerships and advisory roles with orchestras in Japan, and abroad.