Ryo Nakanishi

Ryo Nakanishi was born in Hokkaido, Japan. He completed a Bachelor’s degree in conducting at the Tokyo College of Music in 2019 and a Master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022. During this time, he performed as a pianist with various orchestras in Tokyo and, in 2021, won the Accompaniment Prize at the International Singing Competition in Basel. In Japan, he has already conducted Mozart’s *Le nozze di Figaro* and *Requiem*, as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. After working as an assistant in the conducting department at the Tokyo College of Music, he has been studying accompaniment at Master’s level at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin under Prof. Alexander Vitlin since the summer term of 2023. During the 2023/24 season, Ryo Nakanishi was a member of the Opernstudio NRW. From the 2024/25 season onwards, he will be engaged at the MiR as a principal répétiteur with conducting duties.