Born in Japan, Sadaharu Muramatsu graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, with a Master of Music (MMus) in conducting.In 2001 Sadaharu won the first prize at the ISIS Conducting Competition in Cambridge, UK, and in 2005 he was awarded the Mortimer Furber Prize for Conducting in Manchester, UK.
Sadaharu was one of the semi-finalists of the 2007 Bela Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition in Romania. In the same year he was one of the finalists in the Emmerich Kalman International Conductor’s Competition in Budapest, Hungary, and awarded the special Jury Prize.
From 2008 to 2010 he was granted a fellowship under the Japanese Government Overseas Program for Artists, and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia.
In July 2011, the Wesley Institute directed and conducted by him was awarded the 2nd place at the 5th Summa Cum Laude International competition held in the Golden Hall,
Musikvereinon in Vienna, Austria.
In October 2011, he will be awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. He has been invited as a guest conductor of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan in 2011 and 2012.
He has been performing in the UK, France, Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Czech, China, Korea, Japan and Australia.
He has conducted several operas including Carmen (Bizet), The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini), Seven Deadly Sins (Weill), Il Campanello (Donizetti), The Light in the Piazza (Guettel) and many other operas, symphonies.
Sadaharu studied conducting under Kurt Masur, Sir Mark Elder, Gianandrea Noseda, Imre Pallo, Christian Mandel, Hirofumi Misawa and Kazuki Sawa.
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