At the age of 26 Yaroslav Shemet (born in 1996) is the artistic director of the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice and General Music Director of the Baltic State Opera in Gdansk, as well as the first guest conductor of the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg. During season 2020/2021 he was the chief conductor of the Lviv International Symphony Orchestra INSO. Since his graduation, he has been the youngest academic teacher at the Department of Conducting of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.