Maestro
Dmitry Sitkovetsky is an artist whose creativity defies categorizing. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician and festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Philharmonia, London Symphony, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh and Verbier.
Sitkovetsky has built a flourishing career as a conductor. He was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra (1996-2001) and subsequently made Conductor Laureate, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra (2002-2005). In 2003, Sitkovetsky was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and, in 2006, named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), positions he still holds. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Santa Cecilia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris & St Petersburg Philharmonic.
Sitkovetsky is also the founding director of the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES CO) which is comprised of distinguished string players from Eastern and Western Europe. Since his successful transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio, he has transcribed more than 30 works and his transcriptions are published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer.
Between 1983 and 2002 Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of music festivals including the Korsholm Music Festival, Finland, Seattle International Music Festival, ¨The Silk Route of Music¨ Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in May 2007, was the Artist-in-Residence at the Bodensee Festival in Germany. He has an active and varied recording career with an extensive discography which includes all the major violin concerti, numerous chamber music works as well as orchestral recordings that he’s conducted. His most recent release is of Dutilleux’s L'Arbre des Songes (Violin Concerto) with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Janssons. Sitkovetsky’s increasing involvement in contemporary music shows a keen interest in performing new repertoire. He premiered the violin concerti written for him by John Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000) and often performs works by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Pärt and Shchedrin.
Recent/future engagements include conducting the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lille, Tonkünstler Orchestra, New Zealand, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Macau Symphony as well as the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Italy and on tour in South America. Concerto engagements included the Concertgebouw, Vienna Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, Tenerife Symphony and recitals in Seattle (with Bella Davidovich), Brussels, Seville, Cape Town (with Konstantin Lifschitz), London (Wigmore Hall: Rostropovich tribute Play/directing engagements included the Komische Oper Berlin orchestra, return invitations to the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Orchestre National de Lille as well as the St Petersburg Philharmonic. Since 1987 he has resided in London with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Julia.