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Vasily Petrenko Makes “Spectacular Impression” in his Debuts at Carnegie Hall and with Bavarian Radio Symphony
Saturday night was to have seen the second concert of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall weekend with Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, but his indisposition found Vasily Petrenko stepping in to make his debut with the orchestra on just a...
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Vasily Petrenko’s Mahler Forms Centrepiece of Royal Philharmonic’s Ambitious New Association with Royal Albert Hall
Two British music icons will join forces in a new five-year partnership as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) today becomes the official Associate Orchestra of the Royal Albert Hall, reaffirming London’s position as a global centre for the arts....
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Vasily Petrenko to Make Metropolitan Opera Debut Conducting Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
On 29 November, Vasily Petrenko is set to mark his New York debut conducting Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at The Metropolitan Opera. In a production by Elijah Moshinsky, Aleksandrs Antonenko will perform the role of Hermann while Lise Davidsen, also...
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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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