Opera Apriori 6th International Festival of vocal music

Intrada is a leading Russian-based vocal ensemble of a new generation directed by Ekaterina Antonenko. Intrada enjoys performing early music in collaboration with world-renowned artists – The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Frieder Bernius, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Stefano Montanari, etc.

Intrada is regularly invited to perform with Moscow’s leading orchestras under renowned conductors, such as the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, Moscow Soloists under Yuri Bashmet, Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev – venues, including Moscow and St.-Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariinski Concert Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow International House of Music and the Moscow Kremlin. Intrada is a regular guest at the Moscow festival December Nights founded by Svyatoslav Richter at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

Intrada performed at the Schlosskapelle Dresden in the frames of Dresdner Kunstfest 2015. Intrada appeared at the Musikfest Erzgebirge 2016 and at the Dresden Music Festival in 2017 and 2019. Following an invitation of the Deutschlandsradio Kultur the group performed at the Wartburg Castle in 2018. Intrada appeared in the first concert series of the Lausitz-Festival in 2019. In 2021 the group gave a concert at the Live From London – Christmas festival.

Intrada premiered a number of contemporary music compositions in Russia, including Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir and the Moscow premiere of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion. In 2014 a joint concert of The Tallis Scholars and Intrada dedicated to the memory of Sir John Tavener took place at the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall featuring the second world performance of Tavener’s Requiem Fragments (solo soprano – Julia Lezhneva). The group performed world premieres of works by Klaus Lang, Alexey Sysoev, Vladimir Rannev, Ilya Demutsky, Franck Christoph Eznikian and Arman Guschan. In February 2020 VOCES8 and Intrada gave a world premiere of Ivan Moody’s Trasfiguration during their joint concert at the Anglican church in Moscow.

An outstanding representative of the younger generation of Russian conductors, Maxim Emelyanychev was born in 1988 to a family of musicians. He received his fundamental education in Nizhny Novgorod (conducting and piano) then with Gennady Rozhdestvensky in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. 

Maxim is a prize-winner of numerous international competitions (harpsichord, conducting from the piano) and, in 2013, was awarded the highest Russian theatre prize Golden Mask as fortepianist in stage production of Nozze di Figaro of Perm opera theatre, conducted by Theodor Currentzis. (CD by Sony Classical). Since his conducting debut at the age of 12, he is invited by numerous Russian and international renowned orchestras, both baroque and symphonic. He is Principal Conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro ensemble. He collaborates with such renowned artists as Riccardo Minasi, Max Emanuel Cencic, Xavier Sabata, Julia Lezhneva, Sophie Karthäuser, Franco Fagioli, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Alexei Lubimov, Theodor Currentzis, Patrizia Ciofi, Stephen Hough, Richard Goode, Katia and Marielle Labèque or Joyce DiDonato.

The 2021/22 sees him at the head of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt Orchestra, the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Bergen Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Helsinki Radio Symphony, the Toronto Symphony and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. They include returns to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Antwerpen Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and to the Royal Opera House in Mozart The Magic Flute. 

In August 2021 Maxim took the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to the BBC Proms and to the Edinburgh International Festival. He also toured the USA and Europe at the head of Il Pomo d’Oro together with Joyce DiDonato. Maxim’s 2020/21 engagements include the Geneva Grand Theatre in Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito and the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro. Debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, the Toronto Symphony and Atlanta Symphony orchestras, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. 

In 2019/20, alongside taking up his position with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as their Principal Conductor, he conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in two of the major international opera institutions: The Glyndebourne Festival (Handel Rinaldo) and the Royal Opera House (Handel Agrippina). He returns to the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in three different programmes for the third season in a row. He also returns to the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Other engagements include the Berliner Konzerhausorchester, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphony. The following season sees him, among other engagements, in the opera of the Geneva Grand Theatre in Mozart Clemenza di Tito, the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole in Mozart Magic Flute and his debuts with the Münchner Philharmoniker conducting Beethoven 9th Symphony. 

Highlights of his 2018/19 season included three performances with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and his fourth appearance with the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla. He also makes his debut with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, and conducts the Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano LaVerdi, Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, St Petersburg Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Maxim Emelyanychev’s CD dedicated to Mozart Sonatas on piano-forte (Aparté label) win several prestigious awards, including a Choc of Classica 2018 and the ICMA 2019. In October 2018 is released on Aparté his CD of Beethoven Symphony no.3 and Brahms Haydn Variations with the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists. In April 2019 he received the most distinguished international Opera Award, category New Comer.