Maxim Emelyanychev – principal guest conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev has been Chief Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since 2019, with a contract until 2028, and Chief Conductor of the baroque orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro since 2013. In the 2025/2026 season, Emelyanychev will also take on the role of Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

During the 2024/2025 season, Emelyanychev made his debut with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Münchner Philharmoniker, Tokyo Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France Symphony Orchestra, and gave a concert in Salzburg with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has also guest-conducted the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Emelyanychev's opera engagements include Mozart's The Magic Flute and Handel's Agrippina at the Royal Opera House in London, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, and Handel's Rinaldo with Jakub Józef Orliński in the title role at the Glyndebourne Festival. He has been invited several times to perform at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival.

Maxim Emelyanychev was educated in conducting and piano in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod and later attended Gennady Rozhdestvensky's conducting class at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Young Talent Award from the Critics’ Circle and the International Opera Award in the Newcomer category. He received the 2025 Herbert von Karajan Award at the Salzburg Easter Festival.