Jan 28, 2026 | News
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is delighted to announce the appointment of esteemed conductor Vasily Petrenko as International Visiting Artist from September 2026. Vasily will join the RCM on a four-year term, visiting three times a year to teach and once a year to...
Nov 14, 2025 | News
To inaugurate their collaboration with harmonia mundi, Music Director Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have recorded a programme as subtle as it is unexpected, with two seldom-heard masterpieces of 1913. From the bitingly ironic Shakespearian...
Jun 23, 2025 | News
Vasily Petrenko made his debut this month with the legendary Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, leading them in the pit of the Dutch National Opera for a widely acclaimed new production by Kirill Serebrennikov of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, in performances that...
May 30, 2025 | News
Vasily Petrenko joined saxophonist and presenter Jess Gillam on BBC Radio 3’s This Classical Life. On 30 May, he joins Jess to share some of his favourite music, giving a conductor’s insight into the big works of Shostakovich and Beethoven, and revealing more eclectic...
May 4, 2025 | News
The Arts Desk’s Graham Rickson has praised the “luxuriant” form of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic on Prokofiev & Shor, the new album with pianist Behzod Abduraimov available on Alpha Classics. He writes, “Petrenko understands the first movement’s debt...
Apr 29, 2025 | News
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gave a “blistering, multi-hued” performance of Shostakovich’s epic 7th Symphony in C Major, Op. 6 “Leningrad” at London’s Southbank Centre’s Multitudes Festival. The symphony was illustrated with imagery by Russian...
