Lidiya Yankovskaya

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya is a fiercely committed advocate for Slavic masterpieces and works on the leading edge of classical music. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. In her seven seasons as Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, Yankovskaya spearheaded the commissioning of 11 new operas, advancing the work of six female composers and seven creators of color, and led the Chicago premieres of Heggie’s Moby-Dick and Talbot’s Everest, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Szymanowski’s King Roger, and Shostakovich’s The Nose. This season she returns to Washington National Opera to lead The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, and debuts with Nashville Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and London Philharmonic. She has recently conducted Eugene Onegin at Staatsoper Hamburg, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs at English National Opera, Rusalka at Santa Fe Opera, Carmen at Houston Grand Opera, and Don Giovanni at Seattle Opera, as well as concerts with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics and Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and National Symphony Orchestras.