Maxim Emelyanychev

Maxim Emelyanychev is hailed as one of the outstanding conductors of the new generation. After making his conducting debut at the age of twelve, he was invited to conduct numerous baroque and symphony orchestras in Russia, and international orchestras soon followed. In 2013, he was appointed chief conductor of the period instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, with whom he has toured worldwide. Since 2019, he has held the post of Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, appearing at the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and also further afield, touring Europe in the 2023/24 season. Other highlights were his debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He conducted the Munich and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras for the first time in 2022/23 and the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in 2024. From 2025/26, Maxim Emelyanychev will be Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His remarkable opera debut in 2014 with Don Giovanni at the Teatro de la Maestranza was followed by Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Zurich Opera House, Rinaldo at Glyndebourne Festival, La clemenza di Tito at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Le nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and both Agrippina and most recently Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
His discography includes 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’ violin sonatas with Aylen Pritchin (2021). He has recorded Handel’s Theodora and Eden with Il Pomo d’Oro and Joyce DiDonato. Also underway is a complete recording of Mozart’s 41 symphonies with Il Pomo d’Oro. The first two albums have been enthusiastically received by critics. Schubert’s 5th and 8th symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra will also soon be released.
In 2013 he was honoured in Russia with the Golden Mask, and in 2019 he was awarded both the Critics’ Circle Young Talent Award and the International Opera Award for best newcomer.
Born in 1988, Maxim Emelyanychev received his musical training in his home town of Nizhny Novgorod (conducting and piano) and later in Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s conducting class at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.