Heiichiro Ohyama has a long-established reputation as a remarkable conductor and one of most renowned violists in the United States. He is the music director and conductor of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and also the music advisor and principal conductor of the Osaka Symphoniker, Japan. A winner of the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition and Young Concert Artist Award, in 1979 he was named principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Ohyama is the former artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. For thirty years, he was a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds degrees from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Indiana University.