Maxim Kuzin has been selected by Symphony Magazine as one of their 2005 Emerging Artists.

Mr. Kuzin is Music Director of the Krivor Rog Music Theatre and is affiliated with two Kiev, Ukraine-based music institutions. He is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the Youth Musical Theatre MAXIMA and Music Director of "the Ricochet New Music Ensemble. He combines passionate personality with a distinguished track record of professional and educational achievements as a symphony and opera conductor. His love for and desire to combine rarely performed classical music with the noble intent of providing young, talented Ukrainian musicians with an opportunity to fuse their talents into a world-class performance, culminated in a unique staging of two rarely performed and little known pieces written by Igor Stravinsky - the opera Mavra and the opera/ballet Renard. Such significant organizations as the International George Soros Foundation and Kiev Local State Administration supported and sponsored the project.

During the 2001-2002 performance season, Mr. Kuzin was appointed as the Conductor at the Kiev State Operetta Theatre, where he conducted Strauss' Die Fledermaus and Lehar's The Merry Widow. This appointment at Ukraine's foremost operetta theatre followed Mr. Kuzin's 3-year long affiliation with the Theatre.

Summer 2004 brought Mr. Kuzin's appointment as Assistant Conductor for the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas, USA. He was selected from a large pool of gifted conductors and was invited to conduct the Festival's orchestras. Mr. Kuzin is a frequent conductor of contemporary music concerts at Ukrainian international festivals, including "Kiev Musik-Fest", "Two Days & Two Nights" in Odessa, "Kontrasty" in Lvov, "Youth Art Forum" and "Musical Premieres of the Season" in Kiev. He has performed with such orchestras as the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Ensemble of Soloists of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Kharkov and Rovno Philharmonic Orchestras of Ukraine and the Vladivostok Philharmonic in Vladivostok, Russia. In 2002, Maxim Kuzin was also invited to conduct a choir during the Baha'i International Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York. During the same year, Mr. Kuzin conducted a program of Strauss' waltzes with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. As a singer and choir member, Maxim Kuzin toured and performed around the world participating in several vocal competitions.

Maestro Kuzin's conducting experience includes music direction of operas Il Campanello by Donizetti, Mavra and Renard by Stravinsky; Offenbach's opera/operetta Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le... Other repertoire includes Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the operettas Die Fledermaus by Strauss, Lehar's The Merry Widow, Offenbach's La Belle Helene, Kalman's Das Veilchen vom Monmartre (Paris in Spring) and others. Mr. Kuzin's orchestral conducting experience includes such works as Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Dvorak's From the New World symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Sheherazade, Ravel's La Valse and many others.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1976, Maxim Kuzin began his music studies at the age of 7, when he entered the Kiev Specialized Music School named after Nikolay Lysenko, specializing in choral singing and conducting. In 1994, upon graduating from the Lysenko school with honors, Mr. Kuzin entered the Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine (NMAU) and graduated in 1999 with honors from the Choral Conducting Department, where he studied with Professor E.G. Savchuk. He continued his studies at the National Music Academy's Opera and Symphony Conducting Department under the guidance and mentoring of professor and Maestro Roman Kofman (the current Music Director of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and Bonn Opera). Maxim Kuzin earned a second honors diploma in 2003, this time specializing in musical theatre and symphony orchestra conducting. His graduation concert performance with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine included Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Grieg's Piano Concerto, and was performed at the concert hall of the National Philharmonic Hall of Ukraine.

In May 2008, Maestro Kuzin was awarded the Best Music Direction prize of the Sicheslavna Theatrical Festival for music direction of Donizetti's opera Il Campanello in the Krivoy Rog Music Theatre in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine.

Currently Mr. Kuzin is Music Director of the Krivoy Rog Music Theatre. This professional Music Theatre celebrates its 75th Anniversary this year and Mr. Kuzin's duties include Music Directorship of at least three new music productions each year and conducting of 2 to 4 concert performances each week.

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