He is an orchestral conductor and musician born in Hiroshima, Japan. He learned piano from the age of four and when he was fifteen he studied at that Toho Gakuen School of Music before going to Tanglewood Music Center in 1978 by invitation. He met his mentor, Leonard Bernstein, there and travelled with him to perform concerts as one of his protiges as well as winning the Tanglewood Koussevitsky Prize in 1980. In 1991 he became the Associate Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and then for seven years from 1995 he was the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis. Other positions he has held are the Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, Chief Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic, Principal Conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor of Tristan and Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival and his current position of Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. In musical education he has held the post of Professor at Hanover's University of Music and Drama.

Minnesota Orchestra recordings

Hugo Emil Alfven

Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsummer's Vigil/Midsommervaka)

Reference Recordings RR-80CD

Conductor - Eiji Oue

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Colas Breugnon Overture

RR 92CD (CD: Bolero!)

Conductor – Eiji Oue

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4. Here he is conducting the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in their performance of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme"...