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.
Upcoming Concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
No tickets leftVerdi’s Requiem
Runs: 6–7 NovemberTicket price: 170 - 560 krOne of the most magnificent and moving works in music history fills Berwaldhallen as Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
Few seats remainingAnniversary concert — Ten years of musical meetings between Orkesterskolan and Berwaldhallen
Runs: 8 NovemberTicket price: 150 krFor ten years, Orkesterskolan, part of Kulturskolan Stockholm, and Berwaldhallen have been creating musical encounters for children and young people. Here, young...
Music from Vienna — with Harding & Piemontesi
Runs: 12–13 NovemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krVienna's rich musical tradition takes center stage when Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program where the elegance...
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Runs: 18–19 NovemberTicket price: 100 - 420 krBritish conductor Adam Hickox makes his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Edward Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations, where both friendship and enigma are woven together into one of orchestra music’s most iconic works.
No tickets leftBowie in Berlin
Runs: 26 – 28 NovemberTicket price: 170 - 560 krConductor and arranger Hans Ek returns together with singers Magnus Carlson, Moto Boy and Jennie Abrahamson to David Bowie’s iconic Berlin Trilogy. Drawing on the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger, they create a hauntingly evocative exploration of one of the most influential periods in pop history.
The Fountains of Rome and Tchaikovsky’s 'Polish' Symphony — Kavakos in Szymanowskis violin concerto
Runs: 4–5 DecemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krKazuki Yamada conducts a concert where Rome's fountains sparkle and shimmer in Ottorino Respighi's masterful tone paintings, and Leonidas Kavakos brings new life to Karol Szymanowski's second Violin Concerto. Piotr Tchaikovsky's energetic third symphony
Bruckner's fifth according to Stutzmann
Runs: 10–11 DecemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krOne of the true colossuses of symphonic literature is given new life when Nathalie Stutzmann takes to the Berwaldhallen podium to lead the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra through Anton Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 5.
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