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, chamber musician and festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Philharmonia, London Symphony, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh and Verbier.
Sitkovetsky has built a flourishing career as a conductor. He was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra (1996-2001) and subsequently made Conductor Laureate, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra (2002-2005). In 2003, Sitkovetsky has been the Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and, in 2006, named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), positions he still holds. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Santa Cecilia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris & St Petersburg Philharmonic.

Sitkovetsky is also the founding director of the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES CO) which is comprised of distinguished string players from Eastern and Western Europe. Since his successful transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio, he has transcribed more than 30 works and his transcriptions are published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer.
Between 1983 and 2002 Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of music festivals  including the Korsholm Music Festival, Finland, Seattle International Music Festival, ¨The Silk Route of Music¨ Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in May 2007, was the Artist-in-Residence at the Bodensee Festival in Germany. He has an active and varied recording career with an extensive discography which includes all the major violin concerti, numerous chamber music works as well as orchestral recordings that he’s conducted. His most recent release is of Dutilleux’s L'Arbre des Songes (Violin Concerto) with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Janssons. Sitkovetsky’s increasing involvement in contemporary music shows a keen interest in performing new repertoire. He premiered the violin concerti written for him by John Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000) and often performs works by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Pärt and Shchedrin.
Recent engagements included conducting the London and Royal Philharmonic, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lille, Detroit, Bournemouth, New Zealand Symphony Orchestras as well as the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Italy and on tour in South America. Concerto engagements included the Concertgebouw, Vienna Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra and the NHK Symphony.
Future engagements in the 2008/09 season include play/conducting engagements with the Berlin Komische Oper orchestra, return invitations to the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Orchestre National de Lille as well as the St Petersburg Philharmonic; concerto performances with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic, Tenerife Symphony and recitals in Seattle, Brussels, Seville, Cape Town, London (Wigmore Hall: Rostropovich tribute) and a special recital of new music at the Verbier Festival. Since 1987, he has resided in London with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Julia.


2008/2009

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