Kirill Petrenko

Kirill Petrenko (Russian Кирилл Петренко; * 1972 in Omsk ) is a Russian conductor.

Life

He was born the son of a violinist. The age of eleven he made his debut as a pianist in his hometown of Omsk with the local symphony orchestra. The age of eighteen, he moved with his family to Austria, where his father played in the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra.

He studied music at the Conservatory of Vorarlberg in Feldkirch, where he completed his piano studies with distinction. Later he studied at the University of Music in Vienna, among others, Uroš Lajovic. Master classes and an assistant he graduated with Myung- Whun Chung, Edward Downes, Péter Eötvös and Semyon Bychkov.

His debut as an opera conductor he gave in 1995 with Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera in Vorarlberg. From 1997 to 1999 he was Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper and conducted there, among others, the original version of Boris Godunov. From 1999 to 2002 Kirill Petrenko was music director of the Meiningen Theatre; Here he led the production of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, which took place on four consecutive evenings.

This was followed from 2001 debut at the Vienna State Opera ( The Magic Flute ), at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ( Madama Butterfly ), the Opéra National ( Don Giovanni), the New York Metropolitan Opera ( The Merry Widow ), Liceu Barcelona ( Pique Dame), at the Bavarian State Opera ( Pique Dame), at the Frankfurt Opera ( Khovanshchina ), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ( Eugene Onegin ) and at the Staatsoper Dresden (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ).

From 2002 to 2007 Kirill Petrenko was General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin. With 2nd place in the category " Conductor of the Year " - by Pierre Boulez - an award from the magazine world of opera (2005), Kirill Petrenko was in his third season at the Komische Oper Berlin, appreciated. 2007 and 2009, Petrenko was chosen by the magazine Opernwelt Conductor of the Year.

This was followed by rehearsals of Jenufa, 2009 at the Bavarian State Opera and immediately thereafter by Hans Pfitzner's opera Palestrina, directed by Harry Kupfer at the Frankfurt Opera. The planned line of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Vienna State Opera in October 2009 said Petrenko from the short term; but in May 2010 he took over at this house a series of Eugen Onegin performances in place of the diseased Seiji Ozawa. In 2011 he conducted at the Frankfurt Opera Tosca in a new production by Andreas Kriegenburg, in March 2012 at the New York Met a series of performances of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in the staging of August Ever thing of 1985 with an international transfer on March 17,.

Parallel to his career in opera conducted Petrenko among others, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

The Bavarian State Opera in Munich called Petrenko for the season 2013/2014 as General Music Director. 2013 led Petrenko at the Bayreuth Festival of Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Discography

  • Josef Suk Asrael Symphony Op 27 CPO 2002
  • Josef Suk A Summer Fairy Tale Op 29 CPO 2004
  • Josef Suk life maturity op 34 CPO 2006
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Op.18 2 Channel 2008

Awards

  • 2013: Star of the Year of the Munich evening paper in the category "Conductor "
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