Maestro Yampolsky has conducted over 80 professional and student orchestras worldwide, including engagements in the United States, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Chile, Israel, and the Czech Republic. Engagements stateside and abroad include concerts with the New Mexico Philharmonic; Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee; Illinois and Elgin Philharmonic Orchestras; Green Bay Symphony, WI; Richmond Symphony, Virginia; KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic and the Cape Philharmonic, Durban and Cape Town, South Africa; and the Stellenbosch Chamber Music Festival in South Africa. He’s toured Israel with the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, directed the Conductors Guild Workshop with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and conducted the RCO Chamber Orchestra in Houston, TX, and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia.
Eventually, after 40 years away from his homeland, Yampolsky triumphantly returned to his native Moscow to conduct the Svetlanov State Academic Orchestra, present conducting master classes at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and conduct the KMV Philharmonic in Kislovodsk, Russian Federation.
In recent years, Yampolsky has appeared with the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, PA; the Nashville Symphony; the L’viv Philharmonic; the Ukraine National Symphony in Kyiv; the Weidner Philharmonic in Green Bay, WI; and the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland.