With the CBSO he returns to the BBC Proms before continuing his Mahler cycle, opening the season with the Resurrection Symphony and closing with the Third symphony. In the Autumn he embarks on another European tour with the orchestra performing Britten's War Requiem and launches his Beethoven cycle to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death.

Further highlights include his debut with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and The Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest. He also returns to The Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra to name only a few.

Yamada performs with distinguished soloists such as Emanuel Ax, Seong-Jin Cho, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Martin Helmchen, Nobuko Imai, Janine Jansen, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Alexandre Kantorow, Evgeny Kissin, Yunchan Lim, Bruce Liu, Alice Sara Ott, Maria João Pires, Fazıl Say, Krystian Zimerman, and Frank Peter Zimmermann.

Strongly committed to his role as an educator, Yamada appears annually as a guest artist at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland and is actively involved in the CBSO’s outreach programme. Yamada studied music at the Tokyo University of the Arts where he discovered a love for both Mozart and the Russian romantic repertory. He first achieved international attention upon receiving first prize in the 51st International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 2009. Having lived in Japan for most of his life, Kazuki Yamada now resides in Berlin.

SEASON 2026 / 2027