Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

In 2007, he followed in the footsteps of his mentor, the late Mstislav Rostropovich, and Daniel Barenboim, and turned his attention to conducting. In 2010, was appointed the first chief conductor of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra. He has conducted the Munich Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, RTE Dublin and Orchestre National de France amongst others. In 2020, Maxim Vengerov became Classic FM’s first solo artist- in-residence and released a new recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, coupled with works by Saint-Säens and Ravel as well as a live recital from his Carnegie Hall concert in 2018.

Recent highlights include Maxim Vengerov opening the season of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala with Riccardo Chailly, a residency with Monte Carlo Philharmonic and the Philharmonie in Paris, a sold-out Royal Albert Hall concert performing both Brahms Violin concerto and Brahms Double Concerto, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Orchestra della Scala and Zubin Mehta, the opening night of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival with Christoph Eschenbach, and Sibelius with the Wiener Symphoniker at the Musikverein in Vienna.

His extensive recital tours always take centre stage in his career – this season at London’s Barbican Centre, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Paris’s Salle Gaveau, Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Symphony Center, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium, Bogota’s Teatro Major, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sydney’s Opera House, Taipei’s National Concert Hall and Seoul’s Lotte Concert Hall.

Vengerov returns in the second season of his three-year Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, which includes over 12 concerts, starting with all Mozart concertos and accumulating with all Beethoven Sonatas in 2027, and partnering up with renowned musicians such as Evgeny Kissin, Yefim Bronfman and Martha Argerich.

One of Vengerov’s greatest passions is the teaching and encouraging of young talent, hence he has held various teaching positions around the world, including the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Royal Academy and College of Music in London. In 2018, Maxim Vengerov became the Goodwill Ambassador of the Musica Mundi School. With the aim of making musical support generally accessible, he initiated his own online teaching platform in 2021: www.maximvengerov.com

Maxim Vengerov has received numerous awards including Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and a World Economic Forum Crystal award in 2007, honouring artists who have used their art to improve the state of the world, as well as the Ordre du Chevallier from the Palace in Monte Carlo where he resides.

He plays the ex-Kreutzer Stradivari (1727) amongst others.