Dmitry Sitkovetsky
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Born
Baku, Aserbaidschan
Studies
Russia, USA
Highlights
Salzburg Festival | Lucerne Festival | Verbier Festival | BBC Proms
Prizes
Fritz Kreisler Competition, Vienna
Recordings
EMI Classics | Orfeo | Novalis Diamond | Hänssler Classics | Unison Records | Virgin Records 
Short Biography
Dmitry Sitkovetsky is an artist whose creativity defies categorising. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, festival director & also a TV presenter. Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier, Enescu (Bucharest), Ravinia, Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart and Festival del Sole (Napa Valley). In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a position he currently holds with great success.

In the 2014-15 season and beyond, Sitkovetsky’s guest engagements represent his extremely diverse range of activities including concerto performances in Lucerne with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Tchaikovsky) and the Symphony of Napa Valley under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner (Mozart); play/conduct programs with the SPHINX orchestra at the Festival del Sole (Napa Valley) as well as with the Bangkok Symphony (Mozart); return engagements with the Japan Century Orchestra - (Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven), Moscow Virtuosi (Mozart, Tchaikovsky), Tallin Chamber Orchestra (Dohnanyi, Britten), Slovakian Philarmonic of Bratislava (Beethoven, Rachmaninov), Slovenian Philarmonic of Ljubljana (Adams, Corigliano, Rachmaninov) and will have Peter Coyote as a narrator in Copland’ Lincoln Portrait & Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the orchestra in Napa Valley as well.

2014/2015
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