VASILY PETRENKO

Chief Conductor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director Designate, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor, European Union Youth Orchestra
Artistic Director Designate (from 2021) & Principal Guest Conductor,
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (“Evgeny Svetlanov”)

VASILY PETRENKO

Chief Conductor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director Designate, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor, European Union Youth Orchestra
Artistic Director Designate (from 2021) & Principal Guest Conductor,
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (“Evgeny Svetlanov”)

VASILY PETRENKO

Chief Conductor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director Designate, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor, European Union Youth Orchestra
Artistic Director Designate (from 2021) & Principal Guest Conductor,
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (“Evgeny Svetlanov”)

VASILY PETRENKO

Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2017

VASILY PETRENKO

Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2017

VASILY PETRENKO

Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2017

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RECORDINGS

Elgar - Sea Pictures, The Music Makers


Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Onyx / 2020

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Scriabin: Symphony No. 2, Op. 29; Piano Concerto, Op. 20

Scriabin: Symphony No. 2, Op. 29; Piano Concerto, Op. 20
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto – Lalo: Symphonie espagnole

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto – Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 2/String Quartet No. 8

Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 2/String Quartet No. 8
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.3, 4 & 6

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.3, 4 & 6
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1, 2 & 5

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1, 2 & 5
Elgar: Symphony No. 2

Elgar: Symphony No. 2

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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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