Maxim Emelyanychev
Trained mostly in Russia, conductor and keyboardist Maxim Emelyanychev is a star among his generation of Russian musicians. As a conductor, he is equally expert in mainstream repertory and historically oriented performance.
Emelyanychev was born in Dzerzhinsk, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, in the Soviet Union, on August 28, 1988. His family was musical, and he was enrolled at the Nizhny Novgorod Choral College when he was seven. There, he studied piano and conducting from 1995 to 2003. He also took courses at the Balakirev Music College and then, already with a good deal of conducting experience, entered the Moscow State Conservatory and won a place in the class of legendary conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. He also became interested in the harpsichord and other historical keyboard instruments, taking lessons with Maria Uspenskaya and performing in Moscow's Alta Capella Ensemble. By age 12, Emelyanychev was conducting professionally, and after completing his education, he found himself in demand from both Baroque ensembles and conventional symphony orchestras. He joined the period-instrument group Il Pomo d'Oro in 2011 and became its conductor in 2016, often leading keyboard concertos from the keyboard. He made his recording debut in 2015, backing countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic on the Decca album Arie Napoletane.
Emelyanychev has conducted a steadily growing group of symphony orchestras, including the Veritas Youth Orchestra (which he founded), the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and the Royal Philharmonic in London. After conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain, in 2014, Emelyanychev has also appeared at various European opera houses. In 2018, he guest-conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for the first time, and the following year, he was named its principal conductor; his contract was soon extended through 2025. Emelyanychev has made several more recordings, conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944 ("The Great"), on the Linn label in 2019. The following year, he led Il Pomo d'Oro and an all-star cast in a recording for Erato of Handel's opera Agrippina. In 2021, Emelyanychev backed violinist Aylen Pritchin on a historically oriented recording of Brahms' violin sonatas, and in 2022, Il Pomo d'Oro was heard on mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato's album Eden. In 2023, Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro began a new cycle of Mozart symphonies on the Aparte label with the album Mozart Symphonies -- The Beginning and the End.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 4 Aug 2023
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 40 - Oboe Concerto
Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev, Ivan Podyomov
Symphonies - Released by Aparté on 3 Nov 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5
Maxim Emelyanychev, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by Linn Records on 3 Nov 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jazz (Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen)
Julia Igonina, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Aparté on 30 Jun 2023
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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 28 Oct 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: The Beginning & The End
Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Symphonies - Released by Aparté on 3 Feb 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, 'The Great', D. 944
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Linn Records on 8 Nov 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
EDEN (Deluxe Edition)
Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 25 Feb 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Sonatas for Piano and Violin
Maxim Emelyanychev, Aylen Pritchin
Classical - Released by Aparté on 3 Dec 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Maxim Emelyanychev, Nizhny Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Aparté on 19 Oct 2018
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Arie Napoletane (Porpora, Leo, Vinci, Scarlatti...)
Max Emanuel Cencic, Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Roukens: Distorted Fantasia (after J. P. Sweelinck)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on 5 May 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart : Piano Sonatas
Solo Piano - Released by Aparté on 2 Feb 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Theodora, HWV 68: "To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth"
Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 14 Oct 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Arie Napoletane
Max Emanuel Cencic, Il Pomo D'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, "With Darkness Deep, as is My Woe"
Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 30 Sep 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo