Agent / Producer / Promoter

A versatile producer working across a wide range of performing arts genres, from traditional Japanese arts such as rakugo, bunraku, and kabuki to classical music and jazz. In the field of dance in particular, his expertise spans ballet, contemporary dance, and street dance.
During his 30-year career at a broadcasting company, he was involved in theater management and served as producer of Suntory presents No. 9 Symphony Concert with a cast of 10,000. He currently acts as agent for ballet dancer Julian MacKay and guitarist Kent Nishimura, while also producing concerts for the Super Kids Orchestra and talk events featuring legendary DJ MARK'E.

From his teenage years, he was deeply involved in band and DJ activities while majoring in Japanese art history at university. At the hotel company where he began his career, he planned and produced artist events featuring Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti, and Frank Sinatra, among others. Shortly before turning 30, he took a leave of absence to study at the Cornell University School of Management, where he earned a master’s degree, before returning to Japan in 1995.
From 2013 to 2017, he served as the inaugural commissioner of the Osaka Arts Council. Since 2022, he has been a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Ryukoku University.

Julian MacKay is a principal dancer with the Bavarian State Ballet. Born in Montana, USA, he entered the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow at the age of 11 and became the first American to graduate with a full diploma. At 17, he made his professional debut dancing the role of Siegfried in Swan Lake.　After performing with The Royal Ballet, the Mikhailovsky Theatre, and San Francisco Ballet, he established an international reputation. Beyond the stage, he co-founded Mackay Productions with his brother Nicholas, expanding the possibilities of classical ballet through film production and international performances.　He has been named a Friend of the Maison by Cartier and Dom Pérignon, and is recognized as an iconic figure in contemporary ballet, bridging the worlds of art, fashion, and media. Through appearances with K-BALLET TOKYO in productions such as Giselle and Cinderella, as well as consecutive appearances over two years at OTOBUTAI held at Horyu-ji and Daigo-ji temples, he has garnered exceptionally strong support in Japan.

Yuka Oishi is a Japanese choreographer and dancer from Sakai City, Osaka.
She studied at the Hamburg Ballet School and joined Hamburg Ballet as an apprentice in 2002,becoming an official company member in 2003. She was promoted to Soloist in 2010. While dancing with the company, she began choreographing and received the Rolf Mares Prize in 2012 for RENKU, co-created with Orkan Dann.
After leaving the company in 2015, she has worked internationally as a freelance choreographer and dancer. Her works have been created for Béjart Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Takarazuka Revue, as well as for artists such as Natalia Osipova, Gil Roman,Sergei Polunin, and Shoko Nakamura.
Based in Osaka, she teaches for the Takarazuka Revue and serves as a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University of Arts.

Born in 2003 in Sakai City, Japan, Kento Nishimura began playing guitar at the age of five and devoted himself to solo guitar from the age of six. In 2015, at just 12 years old, he released his debut album First Step. In 2017, he won three major prizes, including the Grand Champion title, at the Fingerpicking Day National Competition, becoming the youngest winner in the event’s history.
Renowned for his outstanding technique and unique sense of arrangement, he has earned high praise from music fans and musicians both in Japan and abroad. His videos have surpassed 80 million total views across platforms such as YouTube. He is widely recognized as one of the most promising guitarists of the next generation.