| 13 May 1961 | Born in Kyoto |
| 1984 | Bachelor studies in flute, Kyoto City University of Arts |
| 1987 | Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA |
| Japan assistant to Seiji Ozawa | |
| 1988 | Assistant to Leonard Bernstein on tours with the Orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival to Germany and the Soviet Union |
| 1989 | Winner of the Concours international de jeunes chefs d’orchestre, Besançon |
| 1990 to 1997 | Sapporo: Conductor in Residence, Pacific Music Festival |
| 1992 | Tokyo: Idemitsu Music Award |
| 1993 to 2010 | Paris: Principal Conductor, Orchestre Lamoureux |
| 1994 to 1997 | Osaka: Principal Conductor, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra |
| 1995 | Grand Prix, Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Music Competition |
| 1999 to 2012 | “Yutaka Sado Young People’s Concert”, Japan |
| 1999 | Debut with the Orchestre de Paris |
| Since 1999 | Osaka: Director of “Suntory Presents Beethoven’s 9th” with 10,000 singers |
| 2000 | Debut with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin |
| 2003 | “La Traviata” with the Orchestre de Paris at the Aix-en-Provence Festival |
| 2004 | Debut with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden |
| 2005 | Aichi: Conductor of the Super World Orchestra at the Expo opening |
| since 2005 | Nishinomiya: General Music Director and Artistic Director of the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre (HPAC), Principal Conductor of the HPAC Orchestra |
| 2006 | Debut with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig |
| 2007 | Debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in London |
| since 2008 | Japan director and conductor of the weekly TV show “Untitled Concert” |
| 2010 | “Peter Grimes” in Turin, directed by Willy Decker |
| 2011 | Debut with the Berlin Philharmonic |
| 2012 | Debut with the London Symphony Orchestra |
| 14 March 2013 | Debut with the Tonkunstler Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein |
| 2013 | Debut with the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg |
| from September 2015 | Music Director of the Tonkunstler Orchestra, Vienna, St. Pölten, Grafenegg |
| 1 October 2015 | First concert with the Tonkunstler Orchestra as Chief Conductor |
