1. The son of the conductor and composer Ivan Karabyts, Karabits was born in Kyiv.
15 Facts About Kirill Karabits
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Kirill Karabits attended the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, where he was a pupil of Helmuth Rilling and Peter Gulke.
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Kirill Karabits has done scholarly work on the musical archive of the Berliner Singakademie, such as transcribing the 1784 Johannes Passion of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which was thought to be lost.
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Kirill Karabits was assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra from 1998 to 2000.
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Kirill Karabits served as associate conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2002 to 2005.
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From 2005 to 2007, Kirill Karabits was principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
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In October 2006, Kirill Karabits made his first conducting appearance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and returned in October 2007, where both concerts received acclaim.
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Kirill Karabits was the first Ukrainian conductor to be named principal conductor of a UK orchestra.
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In 2015, Kirill Karabits signed a rolling contract as principal conductor.
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Kirill Karabits conducted several premieres with the Bournemouth orchestra, including the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg's Absence, 'Unforged' by Carmen Ho, Nurymov Symphony No 2, Ali-Zadeh Nizami Cosmology, Akimenko's Cello Concerto and Anna Korsun's Terricone.
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Kirill Karabits made his North American conducting debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in March 2009.
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Kirill Karabits first conducted the 'I, CULTURE Orchestra' of Poland in 2013 and became its artistic director in 2014.
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Kirill Karabits first conducted a production at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar in March 2015.
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Kirill Karabits made his debut at English National Opera in 2010 in Don Giovanni.
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Kirill Karabits recorded a complete cycle of the seven Prokofiev symphonies with the BSO on Onyx from 2013 to 2015, which included the symphonic fragment of 1902, the original version of the fourth, and the alternative ending for the seventh.