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.
Upcoming Concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
5 november175 krTrio x 2 by Smyth & BeachA chamber music evening at the Finnish Institute where romance, temperament, and fire converge in two rarely heard masterpieces: Ethel Smyth’s trio for violin, horn and piano meets Amy Beach’s piano trio.Read more & tickets
6–7 November130 - 475 krRavel, Salonen & LutosławskiThe second part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Artist in Residence, were we meet conductor Nicholas Collon and soprano Camilla Tilling in music by Debussy, Ravel, Salonen and Lutosławski.Read more & tickets
Few seats remaining13–14 november170 - 560 krJonathan Johansson meets the Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraJonathan Johansson, one of Sweden’s most acclaimed and respected artists, joins forces for the first time with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.Read more & tickets
Few seats remaining19–20 November130 - 475 krPorgy & Bess according to HanniganBarbara Hannigan returns to Berwaldhallen to perform George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess – Symphonic Picture with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.Read more & tickets
No tickets left22 November180 krPippi meets the Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraWhen Pippi visits a real symphony orchestra, anything can happen.Read more
26 november175 krBeethoven's string trioIn a collaboration between Berwaldhallen, the Finnish Institute and Ylva and Stina Ekblad, Beethoven's elegant and charming String Trio Op. 3 will be performed by musicians from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert where chamber music meets poetry.Read more & tickets
27–28 November130 - 475 krBenjamin Grosvenor in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1Ludwig van Beethoven’s first Piano Concerto is a youthful work that in many ways captures the emergence of the composer’s style.Read more & tickets
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