Kanako Abe is highly acclaimed as a specialist of contemporary repertoire. She premiered more than 200 pieces and works in collaboration with worldwide renowned composers like Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Lévinas. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she has performed works by contemporary composers, including Tōru Takemitsu, Michaël Levinas, Régis Campo and Bushra El-Turk. Kanako Abe now holds a position of Artistic Director of Orchestre Symphonique des Dômes (France) and Ensemble Orochi (NL), Resident Conductor of Reisorkest Arnhem, as well as Music Partner of Tokyo Ensemnable Factory and Ensemble Muromachi (Japan). In 2014, she founded in Yogyakarta, Indonesian Youth Symphony Orchestra, the first youth orchestra in the history of Indonesia and became its Music Director.