These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Lidiya Yankovskaya.

Lidiya Yankovskaya has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. As Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, her performances before and during the pandemic earned recognition from the Chicago Tribune, which praised her as “the very model of how to survive adversity, and also how to thrive in it,” while naming her Chicagoan of the Year.

Yankovskaya will make her debut with several orchestras this season, including Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Symphony San Jose. She will also deepen her ongoing relationship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, leading world premieres by Jessie Montgomery and Curtis Stewart as well as designing a series of educational concerts. At Chicago Opera Theater, she leads a new production of Shostakovich’s The Nose and David T. Little’s Soldier Songs in the company’s 50th anniversary season.