Stanislav Kochanovsky, NDR Radiophilharmonie

Biography

Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover as of the 2024/25 season, Stanislav Kochanovsky possesses a refined artistic personality that has led him to be regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of our time.
He’s a regular guest of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the DR Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, as well as guest of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the National Symphony of Washington and the Cleveland Orchestra, collaborating with soloists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Mikhail Pletnev, Nikolai Lugansky, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Matsuev, Alexei Volodin, Kirill Gerstein, Sergey Khachatryan, Vilde Frang, Truls Mørk, Pablo Ferrández and Matthias Goerne.
Early in his career, he also collaborated with leading Russian orchestras such as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia and the Moscow Philharmonic.
With more than thirty operas in his repertoire, he collaborates with the Opernhaus Zürich, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, working with distinguished directors and singers such as Dmitri Tcherniakov, Barrie Kosky, Evgeny Nikitin, Anna Netrebko, Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Lise Davidsen and Peter Mattei. Since 2017, Kochanovsky is a regular guest at the Verbier Festival where he conducted opera in concerts and symphonic programmes.
In addition to the classical repertoire, Kochanovsky has conducted rare performed works and new compositions, such as Ligeti’s Requiem, Scriabin-Nemtin’s Mysterium, Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus, Shostakovich’s unfinished opera The Gamblers, Myaskovsky’s Silence, Weinberg’s “Kaddish” Symphony and works by living composers such as Brett Dean, Ivan Fedele, Tobias Broström, Hawar Tawfiq, Bart Visman, Nicola Campogrande, Rolf Martinsson, Osvaldo Golijov, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Jaan Rääts and Pēteris Vasks.
Stanislav Kochanovsky attended the Glinka Choir School in his hometown of St. Petersburg before going on to graduate with honours at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, where he studied choral conducting, organ and opera-symphonic conducting. He was Chief Conductor of the State Safonov Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2007 began his collaboration with the Mikhailovsky Theatre where, from the age of 25, he had the great opportunity to conduct more than sixty opera and ballet performances.