Dmitry Liss

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Urals Academic Philharmonic Orchestra

Honoured Artist of Russia
Recipient of the State Prize of Russia

Dmitry Liss is a representative of the Moscow school of conducting; he graduated from the class of Dmitry Kitayenko at the Moscow Conservatoire and was his assistant with the Moscow Philharmonic in 1982 and 1983. From 1991-1995 he was Principal Conductor of the Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra and of the Russian American Youth Orchestra from 1997-1999. Since 1995 he has been Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Urals Academic Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1999-2003 he collaborated with the Russian National Orchestra and featured in the ensemble’s audio recordings.

In recent years Dmitry Liss has worked with the Grand Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National d'Оle de France, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestras of Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal and Poland.

Having taken over at the helm of the Urals Philharmonic Orchestra in 1995, he took one of Russia’s oldest symphony orchestras to new heights. The Urals Academic Philharmonic Orchestra gives a total of between eighty and one hundred and ten concerts each year, making it Russia’s most “productive” orchestra.

Under the baton of Dmitry Liss the orchestra has toured to ten countries and given over twenty concert tours; it has appeared at prestigious international festivals and recorded around twenty CDs commissioned by companies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Japan, the USA, France and Great Britain; the orchestra’s most recent recordings have been released on the Warner Classics International and Mirare labels.