- Toyama won the Suntory Music Award in 1982.
- As a conductor he has served with numerous orchestras throughout Japan.
- In addition to the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Toyama also conducted orchestras in Osaka, Nagoya and Sendai.
- Rostropovich performed the world premiere of the composer's six-movement 1967 First Cello Concerto, a piece described by Gramophone as "attractive", with the additional comment that it "sounds like Japanese folk music rendered orchestral by Kodaly".
- A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa.
- He went to Vienna in 1958 to study and while there he composed pieces that used traditional Japanese instruments such as the "taiko" drum and "chanchiki" handheld gong and were based on Japanese folk music.
- His best-known work is a Rhapsody for Orchestra based on Japanese folk songs.
- He studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner.
- Renowned conductor and composer Yuzo Toyama, was a permanent conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
- As a composer his prime influences are Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostako.
- His father is Kunihiko Toyama , a vocalist .
- In 1995, the same Chukyo Television produced a documentary about the joint performance of "Symphony of a Thousand People '' by local Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts and Chinese students under the direction of Toyama.
- He has won numerous awards and has served on the jury of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the International Conductor Competition of the St. Cecilia Conservatory.
- He often appears on TV programs, including " Fantastic Orchestra ", " Meifir Music Dream ", and " Yuzo Toyama Music: World Journey " in the 1980s (all programs produced by Chukyo TV , the first two of which are local). etc., served as chairperson.
- He often appeared on TV programs, including " Fantastic Orchestra ", " Meifir Music Dream ", and " Yuzo Toyama Music: World Journey " in the 1980s (all programs produced by Chukyo TV , the first two of which are local). etc., served as chairperson.
- He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department of Composition.
- He became the exclusive conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra , the permanent conductor of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, the general music director and the permanent conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra , and the music director of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra.
- At the end of May 2023, he fell ill while conducting the performance of the Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo, and dropped out midway through.
- In 2016 he became Music Advisor of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, and in2020 the Honorary Conductor.
- His older brother was Hiroshi Toyama , a country and western performer.
- He had a deep interest in social situations such as politics, and had also released choral music with music to Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan and " Atarashii Kenpo no Hanashi ".
- He was also active in composing and has many published works.
- His younger brother was Koji Toyama , a vocalist and choral conductor .
- His book, "Orchestra wa Citizens Together", depicts the labor dispute at the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra .
- He was a personality on the NHK-FM broadcast program " FM Symphony Concert ". It was still his death broadcast from Nagoya.
- For his work at the podium and as the author of more than 225 compositions ranging from songs to symphonies, Toyama has received numerous awards in Japan for his contributions to the nation's musical life.
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