il Pomo d'Oro

Founded in 2012, il Pomo d’Oro has established itself as an ensemble of outstanding quality in the field of historically informed performance. The ensemble is characterized by an authentic, dynamic interpretation of operas and instrumental works from the Baroque and classical period. In 2022, il Pomo d’Oro celebrated 10 years of intense concert activity worldwide and an impressive list of 35 recordings, many of them award winning.

Since 2016 Maxim Emelyanychev has been Chief Conductor of il Pomo d’Oro. The ensemble has also worked with conductors Riccardo Minasi, Francesco Corti, Stefano Montanari, George Petrou, and Enrico Onofri. Violinist Zefira Valova leads the orchestra in various projects.
Since 2016, Askonas Holt has arranged over 35 tours with il Pomo d’Oro across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia with some of the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists, including Joyce DiDonato, Jakub Józef Orliński, Franco Fagioli, Alina Ibragimova, and Edgar Moreau.

The discography of il Pomo d’Oro includes several opera recordings: Händel’s Theodora, Agrippina, Tamerlano, Partenope, and Ottone; and Vinci’s Catone in Utica, and recitals with Joyce DiDonato, Ann Hallenberg, Jakub Józef Orliński, Max Emanuel Cencic, and Franco Fagioli. Among the instrumental albums the recordings of Haydn’s violin and harpsichord concertos as well as a cello album with Edgar Moreau received Echo Klassik Awards in 2016. With Maxim Ememlyanychev, the ensemble will release the complete Mozart Symphonies for the 21st Century over six discs. The first volume, The Beginning and the End, was released in February 2023.
il Pomo d’Oro is official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project to provide free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps.

The il Pomo d’Oro Academy was launched online during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering free music lessons to music students worldwide. The Academy is now collaborating with El Sistema Venezuela, offering online masterclasses in Baroque music interpretation in cooperation with the Inocente Carreño Itinerant Conservatory in Caracas to the Baroque music ensembles of the El Sistema movement.

The il Pomo d’Oro Academy is a long-term project that will start in the group’s new residence, the monastery in Monte San Savino, Tuscany. Currently under construction, the monastery will be transformed into a state-of-the-art rehearsal and recording room, which can also serve as a small but very atmospheric concert venue. It will host masterclasses, workshops and educational programs for children.