1. Kirill Garrievich Petrenko is a Russian-Austrian conductor.
15 Facts About Kirill Petrenko
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Kirill Petrenko is of Jewish heritage, but grew up without much connection to or knowledge of the Jewish religion.
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Kirill Petrenko studied piano as a youth and made his public debut as a pianist at age 11.
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Kirill Petrenko studied music at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, graduating with honours in piano studies.
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Kirill Petrenko continued his musical studies in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where his teachers included Uros Lajovic.
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Kirill Petrenko's other conducting teachers and mentors have included Myung-Whun Chung, Edward Downes, Peter Eotvos, Ferdinand Leitner, Roberto Carnevale and Semyon Bychkov.
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Kirill Petrenko made his conducting debut in opera in 1995 in Vorarlberg with a production of Britten's Let's Make an Opera.
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Kirill Petrenko was a Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper from 1997 to 1999.
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Kirill Petrenko conducted Wagner's complete Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013,2014, and 2015.
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Kirill Petrenko was GMD of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2002 to 2007.
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Kirill Petrenko first guest-conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, and returned for guest engagements in 2009 and 2012.
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Kirill Petrenko had been scheduled for a December 2014 guest appearance with the orchestra, but withdrew at short notice because of injury.
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In October 2016, the Berlin Philharmonic formally announced that Kirill Petrenko was to officially start his tenure as the orchestra's chief conductor on 19 August 2019.
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In March 2020, Monika Grutters, the current Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Germany, and Kirill Petrenko assumed patronage of the Musiker-Nothilfe, a patronage fund for freelance musicians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kirill Petrenko conducting a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic on August 2019.