Vasily Eduardowitsch Petrenko

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Vasily Petrenko 2013
Vasily Petrenko 2013

Wassili Eduardowitsch Petrenko ( Russian Василий Эдуардович Петренко ; born July 7, 1976 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a Russian conductor .

Life

Vasily Petrenko's talent was recognized and promoted early on. At the age of seven, he and 24 other boys from 450 applicants were accepted into the St. Petersburg Capella Music School for Boys, the oldest music school in Russia. He successfully completed the very hard and demanding training there and then switched to the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where he studied with Mariss Jansons , Juri Temirkanow and Esa-Pekka Salonen . At the age of 18 he already became "Resident Conductor" at what was then St. Petersburg's Musorgsky Theater (now the Mikhailovsky Theater ), one of the oldest opera houses in Russia. Since 2012 he has been associated with the opera house as the first guest conductor.

In September 2006 Petrenko was appointed conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , and in September 2009 he became its chief conductor . From 2013 to 2020 he is chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra .

As a guest conductor, he has led large orchestras from Europe, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2008 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, with whom he returned to the Proms in 2010, 2012 and 2014. His operatic repertoire includes the operas Macbeth ( Glyndebourne Festival Opera ), Le Villi , I due Foscari and Boris Godunow ( Munich Opera , Nederlandse Reisopera), Pique Dame ( Hamburg State Opera ), Eugen Onegin ( Opéra Bastille ) and Parsifal (Xacebeo Festival, Santiago de Compostela ).

With the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra he recorded Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony (2009 Classic FM / Gramophone Orchestral Recording of the Year), several symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich , the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's Requiem, Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances , all of his piano concertos with Simon Trpčeski and the 3rd Symphony , for which he was awarded the ECHO Klassik in the “Newcomer of the Year” category. He received the “Gramophone Awards Orchestral Recording of the Year” award for the recording of Shostakovich's 10th Symphony .

In 2012 he conducted the national holiday concert in Vienna, which has been taking place every year since 2006 .

In an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten in August 2013, he commented on female conductors: He said that orchestral musicians responded better to having a man in front of them and that they could concentrate more on the music because of lower sexual energy.

He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Vasily Petrenko on Imgartists.com , accessed on June 22, 2015
  2. ^ Portrait of Vasily Petrenko at www.concerti.de , accessed on June 24, 2015
  3. ↑ Oslo Filharmonie website ( memento of September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 22, 2015
  4. ↑ Klaus Mäkelä new Chief Conductor from 2020. Accessed on April 9, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Maren Ørstavik: Orkestermusikere reagerer bedre på ha en man foran seg. The has often less energy and can focus more on music. Aftenposten August 29, 2013, accessed September 14, 2018
  6. ↑ Biography on the website of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Petrenko, Wassili Eduardowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петренко, Василий Эдуардович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union