VASILY PETRENKO

Vasily Petrenko was appointed Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006 and in 2009 became Chief Conductor until 2015. He is also Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and in 2013 will become Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the Classical BRIT Awards Male Artist of the Year 2010 and the Classic FM/Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2007. In 2009 he was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University. He now works with many of the world’s finest orchestras, and his wide operatic repertoire includes Macbeth (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) Le Villi, I due Foscari and Boris Godunov (Netherlands Reisopera), Pique Dame (Hamburg State Opera), Eugene Onegin (Opéra de Paris, Bastille) and Parsifal (Xacobeo Festival, Santiago de Compostela). He has toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra and returned to the BBC Proms for a second time with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2010.

Recordings with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra include Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony (2009 Classic FM/Gramophone Orchestral Recording of the Year), an ongoing Shostakovich cycle, and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 and Nos. 1 and 4.

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The Triumph of the Good – Jeremy Siepmann interviews Vasily Petrenko

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Role: Conductor
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