Conductor, artistic director, poet Vladimir Fanshil is an Australian conductor and artistic director, born in Ukraine and working in Australia and Europe. He currently lives in Vienna, is associate conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice, is leading the Bonn Philharmonic on a ten-concert tour of Germany this season, and is artistic director of the ‘Live at Yours’ concert series in Australia. Vladimir has appeared as a guest conductor with, amongst others, the Mariinsky Orchestra (2017–2020), the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Odessa Philharmonic and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. For four years, he served as assistant to the visionary maestro Iván Fischer.