Junichi Hirokami (広上 淳一 , Hirokami Jun'ichi, born May 5, 1958) is a Japanese conductor.
Born in Tokyo, Hirokami studied conducting, piano, musicology, and viola at the Tokyo College of Music. He won the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in September 1984 at age 26. One of the judges of that competition, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, then engaged Hirokami to conduct the NHK Symphony Orchestra on a tour of Japan with Ashkenazy in May 1985.
From April 2013, he became a visiting professor at Kyoto City Arts University.
In November 2016, he was awarded the 36th Arima Award for contributing to raising the voice of the NHK Symphony Orchestra with a great collaboration with excellent musicality and unique strong performances .
From April 2017, he became the Friendship Guest Conductor of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra .
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