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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...

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...

International tours, ambitious recording projects and glittering birthday celebrations are on the cards for Vasily Petrenko as he prepares to conclude his seven-year term as Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the end of July 2020. Petrenko is set to...

Vasily Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra return to Edinburgh International Festival on Thursday 16 August with a programme of compositions shaped by aspects of love. “Petrenko elicited the most magical and evocative of touches from an orchestra that responds as...

Vasily Petrenko made his debut with the legendary Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a programme of Schubert’s Overture from the Incidental Music to Rosamunde, Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto (with soloist Michael Barenboim, also making his debut appearances with...

Vasily Petrenko is among eight leading figures from the world of performing arts, politics, business and journalism to receive honorary degrees from the University of York. The University of York confers the honorary degree of Doctor of the University honoris causa on...

Vasily Petrenko is set to make his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in February 2018 due to Zubin Mehta pulling out to have a shoulder operation. Vasily Petrenko performs dates on the 15th, 16th and 17th February in the Philharmonie and on 18 February in the...

In a recent interview with Russian television network (broadcasting culture and arts-orientated shows), Russia K, Vasily shared some of his future plans, from lobbying for the musical education projects in Liverpool to trying to get a new concert hall for the Oslo...

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the European Opera Centre collaborated for the staging of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, with chief conductor of the RLPO Vasily Petrenko conducting. “The RLPO certainly played the wondrously inventive score with...

Peter and the Wolf (Warner Classics), featuring Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with narration by Alexander Armstrong, has reached number one on the UK's Official Specialist Chart. Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936) is a 'symphonic fairy...