Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko

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Dmitri Georgijewitsch Kitajenko ( Russian Дмитрий Георгиевич Китаенко ; born August 18, 1940 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ), USSR ) is a Russian - Soviet conductor .

Life

Kitajenko was born in 1940 in Leningrad, today's Saint Petersburg, as the son of a respected engineer who won the Stalin Prize . His father was eventually sent to the Gulag on "suspicion of espionage" . In 1949 he sang in the children's choir at the world premiere of Shostakovich's The Song of the Woods (conducted by Yevgeny Mrawinsky ). He attended the Glinka Music School and initially studied piano, violin and choral conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory , before switching to conducting after two semesters. He then continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg . 1966/67 he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In Leningrad he attended a master class given by Herbert von Karajan . In 1969, when he conducted Strauss' Don Juan , he came second (behind Okko Kamu ) at the first international competition for young conductors organized by the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Berlin .

He, who was the assistant at the Stanislavsky and Nemirowitsch-Danchenko Music Theater , took over the post of first conductor in 1969 as a result of disagreements in the house. There and in Berlin, he worked with the director Walter Felsenstein on the production of Bizet's Carmen . Guest performances took him to Vienna, Munich and Brussels during the Cold War . In 1976 he succeeded Kirill Kondrashin (who sought exile in the West) as chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra . He led this ensemble to international renown until he went West in 1990.

In 1989 he worked at the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on a Shostakovich- Britten program until he was appointed chief conductor of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 1990 to 1996 and thus successor to Eliahu Inbal . The orchestra was able to gain a noticeable reputation under his leadership. He was also chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra until 1998 and of the Bern Symphony Orchestra until 2004 . From 1999 to 2004 he was chief conductor of the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul. From 2012 to 2017 he was principal guest conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin .

As a guest conductor he was u. a. at the podium of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Staatskapelle Dresden , the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra . He was also director of the orchestra academies of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .

His fruitful collaboration with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne resulted in his appointment as honorary conductor. He was involved in over 130 recordings. Particularly noteworthy are his complete recordings of the symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich , Sergei Prokofiev , Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninov . Most recently he brought out the symphonies of Peter Tchaikovsky .

Kitayenko is married.

Awards

literature

  • Dmitrij Kitajenko , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/2010 from November 30, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Alexander Gurdon: Kitajenko, Dmitrij . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 229-230.
  • Dmitry Kitayenko. In: Julia Spinola: The great conductors of our time. With a detailed lexicon part. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-480-5 , pp. 241-242.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Alexander Gurdon: Kitajenko, Dmitrij . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 229–230, here: p. 229.
  2. a b c d e f g h i Dmitrij Kitajenko , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/2010 of November 30, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  3. Frederik Hanssen: Farewell to Dmitrij Kitajenko . tagesspiegel.de, July 8, 2017.
  4. Dmitry Kitayenko. In: Julia Spinola: The great conductors of our time. With a detailed lexicon part. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-480-5 , pp. 241f.
  5. ^ Remy Franck: Kitajenko - Marathon Man . pizzicato.lu, 4th November 2013.
  6. a b Search for the artist "Dimitri Kitajenko" in the Echo Prize Winner Database, echoklassik.de, accessed on August 29, 2018.
  7. MIDEM CLASSICAL AWARDS 2006 given . nmz.de, January 25, 2006.
  8. a b c discography
  9. ICMA 2013 , icma-info.com, accessed on August 29, 2018.
  10. ICMA 2015 , icma-info.com, accessed on August 29, 2018.
  11. ICMA 2016 , icma-info.com, accessed on August 29, 2018.