Dmitry Sitkovetsky Violin

Music Director, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra

Dmitry Sitkovetsky is an artist whose creativity defies categorising. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician & festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, NHK and all of the major London orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh and Verbier Festival.

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). From 2006 – 2009, he was named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain). In 2003, Sitkovetsky was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra a position he holds to this day. As a guest conductor, he has worked with leading orchestras including the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Santa Cecilia and the 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. Between 1983 and 2002 Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of music festivals including the Korsholm Music Festival, Seattle International Music Festival, ¨The Silk Route of Music¨ Festival in 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. In July 2010, Hänssler Classic released a boxed set of the complete Mozart Violin Sonatas with Antonio Pappano and Konstantin Lifschitz. Sitkovetsky’s increasing involvement in contemporary music means that he has 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 Komische Oper Berlin orchestra, Weimar Staatskapelle, New Zealand and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras as well as the Tenerife Symphony. Concerto engagements include the Seattle Symphony, Concertgebouw, Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, NHK Symphony and the Hamburg Philharmonic. Recitals include Seattle, Brussels, Seville, Cape Town, Wigmore Hall and performances in the London Philharmonic’s Schnittke Festival. Play/directing engagements include Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of New Russia, Minnesota Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and the San Francisco Symphony’s prestigious New Year’s Eve concert.

Since 1987 he has resided in London with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Julia.

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