NEWS
VASILY PETRENKO MAKES DEBUT WITH GEWANDHAUSORCHESTER LEIPZIG
Vasily Petrenko will make his debut next month at the helm of the prestigious Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig. Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the European Union Youth...
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Vasily Petrenko & EUYO to perform at 11 November World Leaders Armistice Ceremony in Paris
On 11 November 2018 the European Union Youth Orchestra, together with their Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko, will perform at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe during a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of World War I. The event is organised by the French...
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Announces Vasily Petrenko as Music Director from 2021
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic creates him Conductor Laureate as he steps down as Chief Conductor in 2021 Vasily Petrenko will become Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) at the beginning of the 2021-22 Season, initially for five years. His...
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ABOUT
Vasily Petrenko was born in 1976 and started his music education at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School – the oldest music school in Russia. He then studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire and has also participated in masterclasses with such major figures as Ilya Musin, Mariss Jansons, and Yuri Temirkanov. Following considerable success in a number of international conducting competitions including the Fourth Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St Petersburg (2003), First Prize in the Shostakovich Choral Conducting Competition in St Petersburg (1997) and First Prize in the Sixth Cadaques International Conducting Competition in Spain, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2007.
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