Vasily Petrenko is Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He is also Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra following his hugely acclaimed fifteen–year tenure as their Chief Conductor from 2006 to 2021. Born in 1976 and educated at the Boys’ Music School of the St. Petersburg Capella—Russia’s oldest music school—and the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Vasily Petrenko has worked with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, opera houses and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the San Francisco, Boston and Chicago Symphonies, the BBC Proms, the Opéra de Paris, Glyndebourne, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Metropolitan Opera New York. Recently, he made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.