The 38-year-old Chinese conductor, who currently leads the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed a permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre at the invitation of Valery Gergiev.
Li is a celebrated figure in the world of conducting, having won the Jeunesses Musicales International Conducting Competition in Bucharest in 2014, as well as receiving the special prize of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Audience Award at the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Paris in 2018. He was also a finalist in the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors in 2019 and won 3rd prize at the International Rachmaninoff Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors in Moscow in 2022.
This season Li has been a frequent presence at the Mariinsky Theatre, conducting operas such as Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Verdi’s La traviata, as well as concert versions of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and Donizetti’s La favorita. At the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre he has led performances of music by Beethoven, Bottesini, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy and others, in addition to showcasing works by Chinese composers, notably Xiaogang Ye’s The Faint Ginkgo.
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