is an acoustician who has been chief acoustician for over 50 projects worldwide, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the...

, Suntory Hall

Suntory Hall

The Suntory Hall is a concert hall complex consisting of the "Main Hall" and the "Small Hall" located in the Ark Hills complex, near the U.S. Embassy and TV Asahi in the Akasaka district of northern Minato, a ward in Tokyo, Japan...

 in Tokyo, the Bard College Performing Arts Center

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is a performance hall located in New York's Hudson Valley. The center provides audiences with performances and programs in orchestral, chamber, and jazz music and theater, dance, and opera by American and international artists...

 in New York, and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a newly inaugurated performing arts center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, at 16th and Broadway near the Power & Light District, the Sprint Center and the Crossroads Arts District. Its construction was a major part of the ongoing redevelopment...

 in Kansas City. He is the company director and U.S. Representative of Nagata Acoustics of Tokyo.

Toyota is a native of Japan and graduate of the Kyushu Institute of Design

Kyushu Institute of Design

Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan is one of Japan's prestigious national universities and was founded in April, 1968...

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As of late 2006, his works in progress included the Shenzhen Cultural Center

Shenzhen Cultural Center

The Shenzhen Cultural Center is a building complex consisting of Shenzhen Concert Hall and Shenzhen library, located in Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.The Shenzhen Cultural Center was designed by Arata Isozaki and Associates.-References:*...

 Concert Hall for the People's Republic of China, Finland's Helsinki Music Center, the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall

Elbe Philharmonic Hall

The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg is a concert hall under construction in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The concert hall is designed by Herzog & de Meuron on top of an old warehouse...

 in Hamburg and the renovation of the Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

 Concert Hall.

During the 2011-2012 season, Toyota will consult with the acoustics in the remodeling of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in Hebrew as התזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit...

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External links

• Time Magazine - "Perfect Pitch," Nov. 16, 2003
• Los Angeles Times - "Sculpting the Sound," October 19, 2003
• A Conversation with Yasuhisa Toyota - August 22, 2006