Kazuki Yamada is principal conductor and artistic director designate of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. In Japan, he holds the titles of principal guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (from January 2019), permanent conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, music director and chairman of The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo and music director of the Yokohama Sinfonietta. Yamada appears regularly as a guest conductor with orchestras including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the St Petersburg, Czech, Helsinki and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras, the Gothenburg Symphony, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and the Tonkünstler-Orchester.

Yamada is active in the field of opera and conducted Rusalka with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, which also produced an award-winning DVD. Committed to music education, Yamada appears regularly as a guest artist with students at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland.