CONDUCTOR
Mark Kadin has proven himself as a musical leader with deep knowledge and a fresh, progressive outlook. Precision, passion of the explorer and artistic insight are the foundation of his work and have led to longstanding relationships around the world. He has had a distinguished career holding important positions with and guest conducting over 80 orchestras across Europe, Russia, Asia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.
Mark has been celebrated for his inspirational music-making, innovative programming, collaborative spirit, and an engaging personality that instantly puts musicians and audiences at ease. Since 2023, he is Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra, Mexico. From 2017 to 2023, he was Chief Conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was also Music Director of the Krasnoyarsk State Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Lithuanian State Musical Theatre and Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
As guest conductor, he has worked with many leading orchestras, including the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roma Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony, Russian Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Macedonian Philharmonic, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Liepāja Symphony, Transylvania State Philharmonic, Yucatán Symphony, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestras of Philippines and Costa Rica, Moravian Philharmonic, Rostov State Symphony Orchestra, Omsk Philharmonic, Cyprus Symphony, Parana Symphony in Brazil, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Daejeon and Gyeonggi Philharmonic in Korea, Vietnam National Symphony, Shenzhen Symphony and Xiamen Philharmonic in China, Istanbul Symphony and Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Lublin Philharmonic Wieniawski, North Czech Philharmonic, among others.
Soloists with whom he has collaborated include Maxim Vengerov, Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Trpčeski, Vadim Repin, Kristof Barati, Nikolay Lugansky, Alexei Volodin, Rafael Aguirre, Alena Baeva, Lucas Geniushas, Andrey Gugnin, Ilya Gringolts, Jorge Federico Osorio, Alexander Knyazev, Johan Dalene, Andrei Ioniță and many others.
Born in Ukraine, Mark trained at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. He began his conducting career as Assistant and then Resident Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra, where worked with Valery Gergiev, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kent Nagano, Alexander Lazarev and Paavo Berglund in various landmark projects including award-winning recordings for Pentatone Classics and Deutsche Grammophon.
He has emerged as one of the foremost orchestra builders – a conductor capable of instructing, refining and inspiring in such a way that an ensemble steadily improves. He is widely renowned for the remarkable and tangible sense of partnership he creates with orchestral musicians, and his distinct and highly celebrated skill for building an orchestra’s character from within.
As Chief Conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark solidified the orchestra’s status as one of the nation’s most enduring and innovative, and reinvigorated its Bulgarian and international presence through regular touring programs. Mark led the orchestra on its first international tour in 10 years at the World Orchestra Series in South Korea. Under Kadin’s direction, the BNR Symphony Orchestra has been featured extensively on prestigious European broadcast channels such as ВВС, Deutschlandradio, Swedish and Danish Radio, Portuguese National and Spanish National Radio, Bulgarian National Television and Musiq 3 (Belgium). He released more than 150 recordings, including music by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Reger, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Shostakovich, Denisov, Schnittke, works by composers of the Russian and Bulgarian Avant Garde. The first and only international artist to receive the Great Award of the Bulgarian National Radio for creative contribution to the development of the BNR Symphony, Mark has also been honored with the National Award Crystal Lyra for achievements in the Bulgarian performing art.
As Music Director of the Krasnoyarsk State Symphony Orchestra, Mark was responsible for the success and growth of the orchestra. In addition to conducting 25 symphonic programs every season, he led the orchestra on three Asian tours, established Summer Academy for young musicians from various cities of the Siberian region and a groundbreaking Summer Open Air Festival in Krasnoyarsk which were attended by tens of thousands of spectators. He has been recognized with a string of awards for his contributions to cultural life of Krasnoyarsk Region, that including the Awards of the Mayor of Krasnoyarsk City, the Governor and the Minister of Culture of Krasnoyarsk Region.
Mark Kadin has also excelled in the field of opera and ballet since making his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2003 with the premiere of Vladimir Nikolaev's ballet The Gold of the Narts that won the National Golden Mask Award. This was followed by invitations to various projects. He collaborated with the Russian National Ballet Theatre for several years, including touring in Europe and South Korea (the ballets Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake). He made his mark in opera, having conducted titles such as ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Carmen’, ‘La Traviata’, ‘Falstaff’, ‘The Barber of Seville’, and others. He maintained close connections with many of the world’s leading opera singers including Dmitry Khvorostovsky, Sumi Jo, Dmitry Korchak, Hibla Gerzmava, Dmitry Belosselskiy regularly working with them in orchestral galas.