Name Dmitri Kitayenko | Role Conductor | |
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Education University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna Albums Symphonies nos. 6 & 12, Chostakovitch: Jazz suites Similar People Vladimir Krainev, Evgeny Kissin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lilya Zilberstein | ||
Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko (born 18 August 1940) is a Russian conductor.
He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union and studied at the Glinka Conservatory and those of Leningrad and Moscow. He was a prizewinner in the first Herbert von Karajan competition in 1969.
Kitayenko was music director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years. He has also held principal conductorships with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–1998), the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (1990–1996), KBS Symphony Orchestra (1999–2004) and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1990–2004). He has also served as principal conductor of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (1970-1976).
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