Young Stars of Tomorrow | Final Concert Master Class Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Dmitry Sitkovetsky was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, but grew up in Moscow. He studied at the conservatory there, emigrated to the USA in 1977 and continued his education at the Juilliard School in New York. Since 1987 he has lived in London with his wife Susan and their daughter Julia. Sitkovetsky is one of the rare species of artists who are successful in many fields. As a violinist he works with the world's best orchestras. He has also performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier and Istanbul Festivals, and the Georges Enescu Festival; he is also one of the initiators of the Tuscan Sun Festival, which was founded in 2003. In recent years Sitkovetsky has also built a flourishing career as a conductor. Since 2003 he has been Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra. In March 2006 he became Artist-in-Residence with the Spanish Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon. He is also the founding director of the chamber orchestra New European Strings (NES).

Since Dmitry Sitkovetsky released a successful arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations for string trio twenty years ago, further arrangements of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnanyi, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Schnittke have been created - mostly for string orchestra. Dmitri Sitkovetsky is an active, versatile studio artist and has an extensive discography that presents him with all the major violin concertos and numerous chamber music pieces as well as conducting various orchestral works. The CDs of recent years reflect Sitkovetsky's increasing engagement with contemporary composers. He has premiered the violin concertos composed for him by John Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000), and he frequently plays music by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Part, Vasks and Shchedrin, who has written several works for the violinist and conductor Sitkovetsky.