Dmitry Sitkovetsky was born in 1954 in Baku to the family of violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and pianist Bella Davidovich. From 1972 he studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Igor Bezrodny). In 1977 he emigrated to the USA where he graduated from the Juilliard School in New York (class of Ivan Galamian) and launched his solo career.
In 1966 he became the winner of the first youth competition Concertino Praga, and in 1979 he won the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna.
Has appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Chicago, Los Angeles, Vienna and London Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and numerous other ensembles under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Chailly, Semyon Bychkov, Yuri Ahronovitch, Dmitri Kitayenko, Yuri Temirkanov, Eri Klas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paavo Berglund, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Neville Marriner.
The violinist’s repertoire includes all of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, all of Brahms’ and Grieg’s sonatas, concerti by Mozart, Prokofiev and Shostakovich and opuses by contemporary composers. His discography includes concerti by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Bartók, Shostakovich and Dutilleux. In 2019 he released the CD Hommage to Fritz Kreisler & Sergei Rachmaninoff on the Melodiya label (works by Beethoven, Grieg, Kreisler and Schubert performed in a duet with the pianist Lukas Geniušas).
Has been Artistic Director of festivals in Seattle, Washington, Baku, Umeå (Sweden), Tuscany (Italy), Korsholm and other Finnish cities.
Has been a conductor for more than thirty years. In 1990 he founded the New European Strings chamber orchestra. From 1996 to 2001 he was Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast. Since 2003 he has been Artistic Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (USA).
As a guest conductor he collaborates with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra (Beijing), the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the State Chamber Orchestra Moscow Virtuosi, and he has particularly close ties with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra) and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Spain).
Has produced more than fifty arrangements of works by Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Schnittke and Sarasate.
In 2014 he recorded eleven editions of his own programme Visiting with Dmitry Sitkovetsky for Rossiya K (Russia Culture) TV. In 2017 a series of talks was issued in the book Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Dialogues by Muzyka Publishers.
Since 2018 he has been a jury member of the Sphinx Competition in the USA.
Engagements for the 2019–20 season include performances with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Sinfonieorchester, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the Camerata Ireland.
Information for February 2020
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