May 22, 2026 | News
The second in a new series of live recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), with Music Director Vasily Petrenko, is released today on the harmonia mundi label. Embracing the whole world, Mahler’s Symphony No.3 is a vast fresco in which nature, man and the...
May 15, 2026 | News
This August, Vasily Petrenko will conduct the Verbier Festival Orchestra at the Verbier Festival. Looking ahead to the performance, Vasily comments: “Verbier is one of the great summer festivals in Europe, and when you are there, you feel it. The calibre of musicians...
May 13, 2026 | News
The second Academy for Young Conductors will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, from June 23-28, 2026. Vasily comments: “This year we received 159 applications from 22 countries for six places. That tells you something about how much young conductors want this kind of...
May 11, 2026 | News
Vasily comments: “Performing alongside Anne-Sophie Mutter is always an event. She is one of the great violinists of her generation, and she has a particular connection to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. We are performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto alongside...
Apr 27, 2026 | News
‘A love song, a hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death’ was how Messiaen himself described this vast, vibrant psychedelic masterpiece, and Vasily Petrenko, star pianist Steven Osborne and a super-sized Royal Philharmonic Orchestra turned the volume up to...
Apr 17, 2026 | News
On 17th October 2026, Vasily Petrenko will conduct the Czech Philharmonic at the Janáček BRNO Festival, performing Sinfonietta in a programme that will also feature Béla Bartók’s The Wooden Prince, Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka / burlesque scenes in four tableaux....
