Sadaharu Muramatsu

Born in Aichi, Japan, Sadaharu Muramatsu studied music from an early age and later graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia where he gained the Master of Music (Mmus) in conducting.

In 2001 he won the first prize at the ISIS Conducting Competition in Cambridge, UK.

In 2005 he was awarded the Mortimer Furber Prize for Conducting in Manchester.

In 2007 he was one of the semi-finalists of the Bartok Bela International
Opera-conducting Competition in Romania.
He was one of the finalists and awarded special prize of the jury of the Emmerich Kalman International Conductor’s Competition in Hungary (Budapest Operetta Theatre) in the same year.

He was granted the fellowship under the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists, and studying in Sydney, Australia from 2008 to 2010.

He was the choir director of the Eastern Sydney Chamber Choir from 2010 to 2011.
In 2011 he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate in Music from Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

He is currently the conductor and lecturer at the Wesley Institute and AICM (Australian International Conservatorium of Music).
He was appointed chief conudctor of the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra (Sydney, Australia) from 2012.

He studied conducting under Imre Pallo, Kurt Masur, Sir Mark Elder, Gianandrea Noseda, Christian Mandeal, Hirofumi Misawa and Kazuki Sawa.