Kirill Garrievich Petrenko

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Kirill Garrijewitsch Petrenko ( Russian Кирилл Гарриевич Петренко , scientific transliteration Kirill Garrievič Petrenko ; born February 11, 1972 in Omsk ) is a Russian conductor . He is general music director of the Bavarian State Opera and chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic .

Life

Petrenko was born in Omsk, Russia, into a Jewish family. His father Garri Petrenko was a violinist and conductor, his mother Olga Dawydowna Weintraub a musicologist. At the age of eleven, he made his debut as a pianist in his hometown of Omsk with the local symphony orchestra. At the age of eighteen he moved with his family to Austria , where his father played in the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra . Kirill Petrenko is now an Austrian citizen.

Kirill studied music at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch , where he completed his piano training with distinction. He later studied at the Music University in Vienna , among others with Uroš Lajovic . He completed masterclasses and assistance with Peter Gülke , Chung Myung-whun , Edward Downes , Péter Eötvös and Semjon Bytschkow .

He made his debut as an opera conductor in 1995 with Benjamin Britten's Let’s Make an Opera in Vorarlberg . From 1997 to 1999 he was Kapellmeister at the Volksoper Vienna , where he conducted the original version of Boris Godunow, among other things . From 1999 to 2002 Kirill Petrenko was general music director of the Meininger Hofkapelle at the Meininger Theater . In 2001 he was the musical director of the Ring des Nibelungen von Wagner , staged by Christine Mielitz , which took place for the first time on four consecutive evenings with Alfred Hrdlicka and made Petrenko internationally known.

This was followed from 2001 onwards at the Vienna State Opera ( Die Zauberflöte ), at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ( Madama Butterfly ), the Paris Opéra National ( Don Giovanni ), the New York Metropolitan Opera ( The Merry Widow ), Liceu Barcelona ( Pique Dame ), at the Bavarian State Opera (Pique Dame), at the Frankfurt Opera ( Chowanschtschina ), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ( Eugen Onegin ) and at the Saxon State Opera Dresden ( Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ).

From 2002 to 2007 Kirill Petrenko was general music director at the Komische Oper Berlin . After his third season at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kirill Petrenko was honored with second place in the category “Conductor of the Year” - after Pierre Boulez -, an award from Opernwelt magazine (2005). In 2007, 2009, 2014 and 2015 Petrenko was voted Conductor of the Year by Opernwelt magazine .

This was followed by rehearsals of Jenůfa in 2009 at the Bavarian State Opera and immediately afterwards of Hans Pfitzner's opera Palestrina , directed by Harry Kupfer at the Frankfurt Opera . Petrenko canceled the planned direction of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Vienna State Opera in October 2009 at short notice; In May 2010 he took over a series of Eugene Onegin performances at this house in place of the sick Seiji Ozawa . In 2011 he conducted Tosca in a new production by Andreas Kriegenburg at the Frankfurt Opera and in March 2012 at the New York Met a series of performances of Mussorgsky's Chowanschtschina in the 1985 production of August Everding with an international broadcast on March 17 .

Parallel to his career in opera conducted Petrenko among others, the Berlin Philharmonic , the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Bavarian State Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Hamburg Philharmonic , the Frankfurt Opera and Museum orchestra , WDR radio orchestra Cologne , the NDR symphony orchestra Hamburg, the radio symphony orchestra Vienna and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra .

The Bavarian State Opera in Munich appointed Petrenko as general music director for the 2013/2014 season . From 2013 to 2015 Petrenko directed Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival .

On June 22, 2015, Petrenko was elected chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker; on August 19, 2019, he succeeded Sir Simon Rattle . After his inaugural concert in the Philharmonie Berlin on August 23, 2019 with Beethoven's 9th Symphony as his main work, he conducted it the next day for the debut for the Berliners on the fan mile free of charge in front of the Brandenburg Gate .

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts during the concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate on August 24, 2019

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts during the concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate on August 24, 2019

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts during the concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate on August 24, 2019

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Kirill Petrenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrated opera makers. In: Deutschland.de . December 16, 2014, accessed June 23, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kirill Petrenko becomes head of the Berlin Philharmonic. In: Berliner Morgenpost . June 22, 2015, accessed June 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ K. Petrenko's father Gari Petrenko conducts the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra .
  4. ↑ Star conductor Petrenko extends contract . Official website of Bayerischer Rundfunk from October 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kirill Petrenko in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  6. ↑ Kirill Petrenko stands for a new type of conductor Welt online from April 4, 2006.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Sinkovicz: The heart burns. In: The press . April 11, 2008 .;
  8. ^ Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin: Vita Kirill Petrenko ( Memento from May 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Opera 2009 . Yearbook of Opernwelt magazine . Berlin 2009
  10. ↑ Balance of the season 2014/15: The balance of the season in the judgment of 50 critics . Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  11. ^ Joel Lobenthal: At the Met, a dazzling revival of Mussorgsky's 'Khovanshchina' that is Russian to the core. In: Politico . March 9, 2012 .;
  12. ↑ Petrenko comes to Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2010.
  13. ↑ Kirill Petrenko signs contract. Berliner Philharmoniker , October 6, 2016, archived from the original on August 30, 2018 ; accessed on October 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Berliner Philharmoniker: Live at the Brandenburg Gate: Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven's Ninth | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Star of the Year 2013 Conductor: Kirill Petrenko , Abendzeitung, December 26, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Petrenko, Kirill Garrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петренко, Кирилл Гарриевич (Russian); Petrenko, Kirill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Omsk