He made efforts to found the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and was appointed as the first music director, where he established the composer-in-residence system and tried hard to perform their commissioned works first in the world.
Hiroyuki Sakai | Hiroyuki Sanada | Iwaki, Fukushima | Iwaki | Hiroyuki Iwatsuki | Hiroyuki Takei | Hiroyuki Iwaki | Hiroyuki Hisataka | Mount Iwaki | Hiroyuki Konishi | Hiroyuki Asada | Kato Hiroyuki | Iwaki, Aomori | Hiroyuki Wakabayashi | Hiroyuki Tamakoshi | Hiroyuki Onoue | Hiroyuki Nishimura | Hiroyuki Nakajima |
For the third 3-year cycle (2003-2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated by recommendation from the Advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and preceding judges.