Maxim Emelyanychev

Maxim Emelyanychev is an outstanding representative of the younger generation of conductors. Following his conducting debut at the age of twelve, he was invited to appear with a number of Baroque and symphony orchestras in Russia. Invitations to conduct international orchestras soon followed. In 2013 he became chief conductor of the period instrument orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro, with which he regularly undertakes worldwide tours. Since 2019 he has been the principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with which he has appeared at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival, in addition to international appearances. In 2023/24 he led a tour throughout Europe. Other highlights have included his debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. This summer he makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteum Orchestra. In 2022/23 he made his debuts with the Munich and the Berlin Philharmonics.

From 2025/26 Maxim Emelyanychev will be principal guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Following his acclaimed operatic debut with Don Giovanni at the Teatro de la Maestranza in 2014 he has conducted Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Zurich Opera, Rinaldo at the Glyndebourne Festival, La clemenza di Tito at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Le nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and Agrippina and, most recently, Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Maxim Emelyanychev’s recordings include War and Peace: Harmony through Music with Joyce DiDonato (Gramophone Award 2017), Facce d’Amore and Anima Sacra with Jakub Józef Orliński, Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Choc de Classica 2018, ICMA 2019), Handel’s Agrippina (Gramophone Classical Music Award 2020) and Brahms’s Violin Sonatas with Aylen Pritchin in 2021. With Il Pomo d’Oro and Joyce DiDonato he has recorded Handel’s Theodora and Eden. In addition, he and Il Pomo d’Oro are working on a complete recording of all Mozart’s 41 symphonies. The first two albums received great critical acclaim. A recording of Schubert’s Fifth and Eighth Symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra will soon be released.

In 2013 he was awarded the Golden Mask, and in 2019 he received the Young Talent Award of the Critics’ Circle and an International Opera Award as Newcomer.

Maxim Emelyanychev was born in 1988. He received his musical education in his home city of Nizhny Novgorod and as part of Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s conducting class at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.