ABOUT
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Otis Enokido-Lineham is a British/Japanese conductor currently based in London. He has worked internationally as a conductor across the fields of Symphonic, Contemporary, Opera and Youth/Community Music.
For the 22/23 season Otis was an Assistant Conductor with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO). He also held the position of conductor with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group NEXT Programme and worked with both ensembles in a variety of concerts and projects.
Highlights of the previous season include returning to the Aldeburgh Festival to assist a new production of Britten's Curlew River with Deborah Warner/Audrey Hyland, a national tour with the NYO Inspire Orchestra and performance at the BBC Proms, masterclasses with Peter Eotvos and Jac van Steen and the premiere of the opera ‘Hey Maudie!’ in London.
Otis was a semi-finalist for the most recent Siemens-Halle Conducting Competition in Manchester and has worked/attended masterclasses with the CBSO, BBCSSO, BBCNOW, London Sinfonietta, Halle and Ulster Orchestras. In April he was awarded joint 1st prize at the CONDUCTING COMPETITION CITTA’ DI BRESCIA-GIANCARLO FACCHINETTI. Prizes include an opera production at the Fondazione Teatro Coccia, Novara and concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari next season. H also automatically qualifies for the semi-finals of the Giudo Cantelli Competition in 2026
Since 2021 Otis has taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School as Head of Orchestras and features in their CD release 'Around The World In 80 Minutes' alongside artists such as Maxim Rysanov on Orchid Classics. He has also worked with the National Youth Orchestra (National Tour), Purcell School Symphony Orchestra (Southbank), London Schools Symphony Orchestra (Barbican), National Children’s Orchestra (London Weekend) and on a side-by-side project with the London Mozart Players and students from the GDST.
In the field of contemporary music he has worked with a number of the major ensembles in the UK having assisted at the London Sinfonietta, conducted the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, attended masterclasses with the Eotvos Foundation and as a Britten-Pears Young Artist on the Composition and Performance course. In the coming season he continues some of these collaborations including development of the opera commissioned by the Roberts Institute and various new music concerts across Europe.
Otis studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Sian Edwards winning both the Conducting Prize and Regency Award for outstanding performance. Whilst at the Academy he has worked with conductors such as Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson and Ludovic Morlot and assisted Alice Farnham in a double bill of Ravel and Puccini on the Academy Opera Course. Previously he also studied the cello at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) with Petr Prause and Victoria Simonsen.