The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra has extended the contract with music director Kazushi Ono (58) until March 2023. He is in this position since April 2015.
Ono is also Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. In September 2018 he became Artistic Director to the New National Theatre Tokyo. From 2008 to 2017, Kazushi Ono maintained his position as Principal Conductor of Opéra National de Lyon.