Daichi DEGUCHI

Daichi Deguchi is the 1st-prize winner of the Khachaturian International Competition 2021(Conducting) and was awarded the 2nd prize (no 1st prize was given) at the Kussewitzky International Conducting Competition, also winning the Orchestra Special Prize.

Currently Deguchi is serving as Assistant Conductor of Orchestre Philharmonique royal de Liège (2024/25 season)

Born in Osaka, Japan, Deguchi learned piano and horn since childhood. After graduating from the faculty of law at the Kwansei Gakuin University, He studied conducting at the Tokyo College of Music and at die Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin graduated in 2023. Deguchi has studied under Junichi Hirokami, Tatsuya Shimono, Christian Ehwald, Hans-Dieter Baum and others.

Deguchi works with numerous orchestras in Europe, such as Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Danube Symphony Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphoniker Hamburg, Orchestra Magna Grecia, State Academic Orchestra of the Republic Kazakhstan, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra among others.

In Japan, Deguchi made his professional orchestra debut at subscription concert of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in July,2022 that led him continuous debut to Japanese orchestras such as City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra,Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra,Japan Century Symphony Orchestra,Osaka Philharnony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra among others.