Philipp Chizhevsky

Philipp Chizhevsky was born in Moscow in 1984. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a double degree in choral conducting (2008, class of Professor Stanislav Kalinin) and opera and symphonic conducting (2010, class of Professor Valery Poliansky). He then worked as a choirmaster and conducting trainer at the Gnessin State Musical College. In 2008, he became a prize-winner of the Russian National Conductors' Competition in Moscow. <>

The same year, he and Maria Grilikhes co-founded Questa Musica ensemble performing in Russia and abroad. He has led the ensemble through many large-scale projects such as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Arkhangelskoye estate and museum (2011, directed by Alisher Khasanov) and The Fairy Queen at the Great Hall of the Conservatory (2017), Sergei Nevsky’s Francis at the Bolshoi Theater (2012, staged by Vladimir Bocharov), Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale at Na Strastnom Theatre Centre (2013, choreography by Oleg Glushkov), Drillalians opera series at Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (2015, directed by Boris Yukhananov, composers: Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Boris Filanovsky, Alexey Syumak, Sergei Nevsky, Alexey Sysoev, Viadimir Rannev), Galileo opera for violin and scientist at Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (2017, idea by Elena Revich, directed by Boris Yukhananov), and Haendel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (2018, directed by Konstantin Bogomolov). 

Since 2011, Chizhevsky has been conducting the State Symphony Capella of Russia (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor: Valery Polyansky). He assisted Gennady Rozhdestvensky in rehearsing the orchestra's subscription concerts and conducted the orchestra at the 1st All-Russian Music Competition, which brought him a letter of acknowledgement from the Russian Ministry of Culture. Philipp Chizhevsky conducted the premiere of Michael Nyman’s opera Prologue to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell in Perm (2012). 

In 2014, he directed and conducted Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (stage director Hans-Joachim Frey). In partnership with Vladimir Jurowski and Fuad Ibrahimov, he conducted the Russian premiere of Stockhausen's Gruppen for three orchestras and three conductors as part of Another Space festival (2016) at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. In 2018, he conducted the world premiere of Giya Kancheli's T–S–D for cello and orchestra at the opening of the 10th edition of VIVACELLO festival. 

Since 2014, Chizhevsky has been a guest conductor with the Russian Bolshoi Theatre. In the 2014/15 season, he was the artistic director of the 1st Baroque Festival of the Bolshoi. As a conductor and stage director, he has been engaged in several productions, including Offenbach's La Périchole at the Bolshoi Chamber Stage (2019, stage director Philipp Grigoryan) and one-act operas The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigory Frid and Weiße Rose by Udo Zimmermann (2021, stage director Hans-Joachim Frey). 

At the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, Philipp Chizlevsky regularly conducts Bizet' Carmen staged by Konstantin Bogomolov (2021). 

He has been collaborating with Russian and international orchestras, including Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Russian Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre (Moscow), Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra, State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Tokyo New Symphony Orchestra, and others. 

His recordings feature Sketches to Sunset and Russian Seasons by Leonid Desyatnikov (with violinist Roman Mints, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra), and Boris Papandopulo's Piano Concerto (with pianist Andrey Gugnin and Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra). 

In 2019, he received the BraVo International Professional Music Award and the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Award for the production of Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. Beforehand, he had been nominated three times for the Golden Mask award. 

Since 2011, Philipp Chizhevsky has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. Furthermore, he is the Artictic Director of Cantata annual international music festival in Kaliningrad.