Conducting

Parallel to his career as a composer, Onishi is active as a conductor. Highlights of his engagements include:

New Music Delaware Sinfonietta (2026)
Ensemble Kujoyama Guest Residency at Stanford University (2023)
Mizzou New Music Ensemble (2018-23)
Columbia University Orchestra (as Assistant Conductor, 2011–13)
Nieuw Ensemble (The Netherlands) (as Guest Conductor, 2014)
Makoto Shinohara Portrait Concert, July 2021 (Tokyo, Japan)
Columbia Civic Orchestra (as Guest Conductor, 2021–22)

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Repertoire List

82 works

Andre, Mark – Asche (2004, rev. 2014)
Aylward, John – Mercury (2013)
Azuma, Shunsuke – Mondsichel-Tanz! (2009/2010)
Balter, Marcos – Ligāre (2013)
Beis, Santiago – Provinciana (2022)
Beis, Santiago – The clouds are machines (2022)
Bezerra, Luis Hermano – Benditos (listen, opens in a new tab) (2022)
Borchardt, Isabelle – Contemporary American Creativity (2020)
Boulez, Pierre – Dérive I (listen, opens in a new tab) (1984)
Chambers, Evan – longing for peace in the garden of lost children (2005)
Chang, Yu-Hui – Intersect (2013)
Chen, Yi – Near Distance (1988)
Cholodenko, Devin – Mountains in the Distance (2021)
Christensen, Mikkel – you,oranyone (2018)
Colagiovanni, Ben – Night Blossoms (2017)
Day, Kevin – Strobe Light
Dennehy, Donnacha – The Blotting (listen, opens in a new tab) (2004)
Di Castri, Zosha – Escapement (2009)
Di Castri, Zosha – Strange Matter (2011)
Donatoni, Franco – Arpège (1986)
Doyle, Will – Spectre (2026)
Druckman, Jacob – Come Round (1992)
Farney, Devin – Choral Settings of Two Poems By Robert Louis Stevenson (2004)
Farney, Devin – Nexus (2006)
Goldschmidt, Francisco C. – ...y te pierdes y te hundes... (2013-16)
Gorni, Vitor – Sagittarius (2021)
Gosfield, Annie – Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (2000)
Grisey, Gérard – Talea (1986)
Halac, José – The fragile pulsings of tectonic folds (2022)
Hall, Alec – Blood July (2012)
Hall, Alec – Striped Noise (2011)
Heredia, Carolina – Ius in Bello (2014)
Hughes, Curtis K – National Insecurity (2002)
Iannotta, Clara – Il colore dell'ombra (2010)
Jacobs, Bryan – Do You Need, Do To Me, 18 Me, 18 Mean (instrumental ver.) (2012)
Jacobs, Bryan – Stealing an Image (2009)
Jacobs, Bryan – Aninininimate (2012)
Kirsten, Amy Beth – World Under Glass No. 2 (2011)
León, Tania – One Mo' Time (2016)
Lévy, Fabien – à propos (2008)
Lewis, George – Les Exercices Spirituels (listen, opens in a new tab) (2010, rev. 2021)
Lin, Wei-Chieh – ...entrapercevoir... (2013, rev. 2014)
Lindberg, Magnus – Quintetto dell'estate (1979)
Lobo, Alejandro – Deluge (2026)
Lobo, Alejandro – Bottle Up the Sun (2024)
Lu, Wang – Siren Song
McCloskey, Aaron – Insectarium (2026)
Moore, Kate – Mobiles and Sculptures (2014)
Morima – reconstruct
Morima – toy piano concerto (2022–23)
Mulshine, Mike – With careful abandon (2023)
Negrón, Angélica – Conversación a distancia (2020)
Onovwerosuoke, Fred – Nubian Dances No. 1 (2013)
Orikasa, Toshiyuki – Dissipation IIb
Ricketts, Matthew – Quick Study (2011)
Rose, François – The Pond's Moon (listen, opens in a new tab) (2020)
Schönberg, Arnold – 1. Kammersymphonie (1906/1923, arr. by Anton Webern)
Schönberg, Arnold – Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Schroeder, Niko – Construction (2020)
Serrano, José M. – Sistro Impar
Serafin, Rosario – Sonos (2021)
Shaw, Emily – the things I heard on the radio (2021)
Shaw, Emily – Romance of the Worms (2022)
Shinohara, Makoto – Passage B (2003)
Shinohara, Makoto – Play (1982)
Shinohara, Makoto – Septet (2013)
Sieh, Robyne – After Hours (2022)
Sieh, Robyne – The Quarry (2021)
Smith, Rachael – a grain of sand, a chamber opera in one act (2025)
Snelling, Jack – City Swing (2019)
Soper, Kate – The Sleep Side (2011)
Sota Taier, Pedro Antonio – Desdoblar una grulla de papel y descubrir con sorpresa que tiene un esqueleto (2021)
Strauss, Robbie – Daffodils (2025)
Tsuda, Schuyler – Forced Vibrations and Resonance
Tucker, Colin – engulfed, constrained in a widening gap (2012-13)
Vidal, Fernando Zappino – Ngelemen (2021)
Wakabayashi, Chiharu – Dark Horse I (2009, rev. 2023)
Wang, Jiaqi – The Call of Life (2022)
Wettl, Mátyás – ö (2014)
Xenakis, Iannis – Atrées (1962)
Xenakis, Iannis – Khal Perr (1983)
Zahnd, Ernesto Bojanich – Matutino/vespertino (2021)