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Kirill Petrenko

Kirill Petrenko

Born: 11th February 1972, Omsk, Russia

Nationality: Russian

The Russian-Austrian conductor Kirill Petrenko was born in Omsk in 1972 to musical parents and studied in Vienna and Vorarlberg, where he made his professional conducting debut in 1995. He conducted his first Ring Cycle in 2001, and has since established himself as one of the finest Wagner conductors of his generation, appearing regularly at the Bayreuth Festival and winning widespread acclaim for his interpretations of The Ring, Parsifal and Die Meistersinger at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was appointed Generalmusickdirektor in 2013.

In 2015 Petrenko was announced as Sir Simon Rattle’s successor-elect as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with effect from August 2019. He first conducted the orchestra in 2006, and recorded John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser with them on their in-house label. A self-effacing and media-shy man, Petrenko has made very few commercial recordings, concentrating instead on live performance: his modest discography includes Suk’s A Summer’s Tale and Tale of a Winter’s Evening with the Orchestra der Komischen Oper Berlin.

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Recording of the Week, Korngold's Die tote Stadt from Munich

23rd July 2021

Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen both thrive under the camera's close scrutiny in Korngold's early opera about a volatile widower who attempts to refashion a new love-interest in his late wife's image.

Recording of the Week, Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony

17th May 2019

Recorded live in concert in 2017, the Berliner Philharmoniker's first album with their new Chief Conductor augurs very well indeed for their new partnership.

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