Grandy becomes chief conductor of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra has appointed Elias Grandy, who studied in Basel among other places, as its new chief conductor from 2025.
The German-Japanese conductor will take over the position from April 2025 for an initial period of three years. His contract will take the 43-year-old to Sapporo for eight weeks per season. He will be back in Japan in November 2024 before his contract begins.
Grandy studied cello, music theory and conducting in Munich, Basel and Berlin. After several years as a cellist, including with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, he began his career as a conductor as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and shortly afterwards won the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition. From 2015 to 2023, he was General Music Director at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
