The second Academy for Young Conductors will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, from June 23-28, 2026. Vasily comments: “This year we received 159 applications from 22 countries for six places. That tells you something about how much young conductors want this kind of training, and how few real opportunities exist for them. Alongside the masterclass, I will be conducting the Armenian National Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. I have thought a lot about why that piece and that orchestra feel like such a natural fit. The heat and the colour in Scheherazade, the temperament Rimsky-Korsakov puts into it, is genuinely close to what you feel from Armenian musicians. I think that concert is going to be something special.”
RPO London concert review
As a musical argument, paced shrewdly across almost an hour by Petrenko, it was overwhelming.” Many thanks to Ivan Hewitt at The Telegraph for a positive review of the RPO concert, featuring Scriabin's Third Symphony. You can listen to the concert on BBC Radio 3 on...
