On April 9 and 10, the renowned Chinese conductor Li Haozhan will take the conductor’s stand for the grand gala concerts that will conclude the international festival Stars Parade at the Opera. Slovtsov.

Born in China and a graduate of the Beijing Conservatory, Li Haozhan is a true citizen of the world, an internationally sought-after conductor with a thriving career in his homeland, Russia, and on prestigious stages across the globe.

He has collaborated with the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, various leading Chinese orchestras, the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (Parma), the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Saarbrücken Radio and Television Orchestra, the MDR Leipzig Central Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Bucharest), among others. In Russia, he has conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, Moscow Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Currently, Li Haozhan serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre. His talent is highly regarded by Maestro Valery Gergiev.

Li Haozhan is a laureate of numerous prestigious competitions. He is the winner of the 5th International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales (2014, Bucharest), received the Special Prize of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Audience Award of the 4th Evgeniy Svetlanov International Conducting Competition (2018, Paris), finalist of the International Competition for Young Conductors (2019, Besançon). In 2022, he became a laureate of the International Rachmaninoff Competition for Pianists, Composers, and Conductors in Moscow, earning Third Prize and a Bronze Medal. 

This won’t be Li Haozhan’s first appearance at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre — in January 2023, he took the conductor’s stand at Puccini’s Tosca.