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| 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 | |
| A master musician, Dmitry Sitkovetsky is at the height of his powers as a violinist and each season plays concertos for which he has become renowned through his recordings on Virgin Classics, notably those by Bartók, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. A champion of contemporary works (e.g. Casken, Meyer, Penderecki, Schnittke, Pärt, Vasks and Shchedrin), he recently played Dutilleux's L'Arbre des songes at the Berlin Musik Fest and will perform it next season in Amsterdam with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons. Dmitry Sitkovetsky's career as a conductor has led to positions with the Ulster Orchestra, Russian State Symphony in Moscow, New European String Chamber Orchestra and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra where he has been Music Director since the 2003-04 season. Drawing on his rigorous Russian training combined with 25 years experience in the west, his repertoire ranges from Bach through the symphonic tradition of Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schubert to the romantic era and 20th century works by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bartók, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. This season he conducts a Beethoven cycle with his orchestra in Greensboro. A "musician's musician", he is frequently seen in the dual role of soloist and conductor. Working both with symphony and chamber orchestras he recently conducted the San Francisco Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, and the Dusseldorf Symfoniker, and this season he will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Strauss and Bach. 2006/2007 If you wish to revise this biography, please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management. Please use material of the current season only. | |
