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Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko Celebrate the Orchestra’s Centenary with a European Tour
National and civic pride helped launch the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra a century ago. They have been boosted since by its outstanding achievements at home and on the international stage. The Norwegian orchestra, which gave its first performance in...
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Vote in the Gramophone 2019 Awards
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of ten international orchestras nominated as Gramophone’s 2019 Orchestra of the Year. This award celebrates ensembles that have made significant recorded contributions in the past year, and once again...
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European Union Youth Orchestra Summer 2019 Tour
The European Union Youth Orchestra Summer Tour 2019 includes 9 major concerts and 16 other public events across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands from July 27th to August 18th 2019. More than a hundred players from all the...
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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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