Kornilios Viktor Michailidis

Kornilios Michailidis is a Greek conductor and pianist, renowned for his work in both the symphonic and operatic repertoire. He is the 1st Prize Winner and the Orchestra Award Winner of the prestigious Tokyo International Conducting Competition 2024.

Since 2018, he has maintained a special relationship with the prestigious Teatro Real in Madrid, where he made his official debut with “The Magic Flute” in 2020, conducted John Adams’ “Nixon in China” in 2023, and will be returning for “Eugene Onegin” in 2025. His operatic repertoire includes “Falstaff,” “La clemenza di Tito,” “Idomeneo,” “Médée” by Cherubini, “Only the Sound Remains” by Kaija Saariaho, among others.​

On the concert podium, he has worked with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Russian National Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Staatskapelle Weimar, South Denmark Philharmonic, as well as all major Greek orchestras. He has collaborated with world-class soloists such as Lise Davidsen, Kristján Jóhannsson, Sir Stephen Hough, and Benjamin Grosvenor.

​Having graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2018 with a Master’s degree in Conducting, he started his career as Assistant Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2016/2017) and Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (2018-2020). Kornilios studied piano at the École Normale de Musique in Paris and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in the USA.

As a laureate of the 1st International Piano Competition in Mayenne (France), he has since performed in Europe, Israel, and the USA, giving piano recitals and chamber music concerts, and performing as a soloist with orchestras. He has collaborated with esteemed musicians such as Sergei Krylov, Valeriy Sokolov, and Juraj Valčuha.